Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - 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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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - David Hare

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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. - David Hare

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Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.' — Jimmy Fallon

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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

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Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. - David Hare

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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. - David Hare

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

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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. - David Hare

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