No one but a fool is always right. - David Hare

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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. - David Hare

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Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. - David Hare

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Smiles are the language of love. - David Hare

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Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. - David Hare

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - David Hare

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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

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Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. - David Hare

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Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. - David Hare

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