Christopher Fry Quotes

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• An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must.

  Christopher Fry

  Writing, Artist, Zest

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• Thank God our time is now when wrong comes up to meet us everywhere never to leave us till we take, the greatest stride of the soul man ever took. affairs are now soul size the enterprise is exploration unto God. Where are you making for? It takes so many thousand years to wake. But will you wake for pity's sake?

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Years, Soul

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• In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

  Christopher Fry

  Time, Eternity Of Life, Tragedy

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• What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

  Christopher Fry

  Halos, Cleaning, Virtue

  The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1

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• Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Prose And Poetry, Language

  Christopher Fry (1997). “The Early Days”

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• The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly, to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human beings.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Truth, Mean

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• There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

  Christopher Fry

  Reality, Thinking, Fiction

  Christopher Fry (1999). “A Yard of Sun”, p.84, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

  Christopher Fry

  Eye, Imagination, Wide

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• One day I shall burst my bud of calm and blossom into hysteria.

  Christopher Fry

  Hysteria, One Day, Bud

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.20, Oberon Books

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• Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

  Christopher Fry

  Wings, Understanding, May

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.133, Oberon Books

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• Life itself is the real and most miraculous miracle of all. If one had never before seen a human hand and were suddenly presented for the first time with this strange and wonderful thing, what a miracle, what a magnificently shocking and inexplicable and mysterious thing it would be.

  Christopher Fry

  Real, Mysterious Things, Hands

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• Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

  Christopher Fry

  Appreciation, Despair, Comedy

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• Life is a hypocrite if I can't live the way it moves me.

  Christopher Fry

  Moving, Hypocrite, Way

  Christopher Fry (1985). “Selected Plays”, p.220, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

  Christopher Fry

  Home, Looks, Lost

  'The Lady's not for Burning' (1949) act 3

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• I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

  Christopher Fry

  Heart, Causes, Lost

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• Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

  Christopher Fry

  Giving, Attention, Half

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• How nature loves the incomplete. She knows If she drew a conclusion it would finish her.

  Christopher Fry

  Nature, Conclusion, Incomplete

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.61, Oberon Books

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• We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

  Christopher Fry

  World, Persuasion

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.91, Oberon Books

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• If we could wake each morning with no memory of living before we went to sleep, we might arrive at a faultless day.

  Christopher Fry

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Christopher Fry (1957). “The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy”, p.58, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Poetry, Heaven

  Time, New York, April 3, 1950.

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• Who apart from ourselves, can see any difference between our victories and our defeats?

  Christopher Fry

  Motivational, Differences, Victory

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Plays Three”, Oberon Books Limited

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• The dark is light enough.

  Christopher Fry

  Dark, Light, Enough

  Title of play (1954)

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• I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

  Christopher Fry

  Travel, Men, Light

  The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1

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• What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.

  Christopher Fry

  Madness, Happens

  Christopher Fry (1952). “A Phoenix Too Frequent”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• The moon is nothing But a circumambulating aphrodisiac Divinely subsidized to provoke the world Into a rising birth-rate

  Christopher Fry

  Moon, Birth Rate, Rising

  The Lady's Not for Burning act 3 (1949)

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