The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - David Hare

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You've gotta dance like nobody is watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like nobody is listening, And live like it's heaven on earth. ― William W. Purkey

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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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Christ didn't die just so you could make to heaven; He lives so you can make it through earth!

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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven.

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

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Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew--knew--that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?

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Satan delights to have us put ourselves down. Self-contempt is of Satan. There is no such thing in heaven.

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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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You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

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