Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. - 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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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. - David Hare

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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. - David Hare

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

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Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. - 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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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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. - David Hare

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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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