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• Indulgences, not fulfillment, is what the world Permits us.

  Christopher Fry

  World, Permit, Fulfillment

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

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• In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

  Christopher Fry

  Life, Running, Play

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• The difference between tragedy and comedy is the difference between experience and intuition. In the experience we strive against every condition of our animal life: against death, against the frustration of ambition, against the instability of human love. In the intuition we trust the arduous eccentricities we're born to, and see the oddness of a creature who has never got acclimatized to being created.

  Christopher Fry

  Ambition, Animal, Frustration

  "Comedy". Vogue, January, 1951.

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• It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, World, Spirit

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.25, Oberon Books

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• How can a man learn navigation Where there's no rudder?

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Insecurity, Navigation

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• My trouble is I'm the sort of writer who only finds out what he's getting at by the time he's got to the end of it.

  Christopher Fry

  Trouble, Ends

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• Day's work is still to do, Whatever the day's doom.

  Christopher Fry

  Work, Doom, Stills

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Three”, p.221, Oberon Books

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• Equality is a mortuary word.

  Christopher Fry

  Class, Mortuary

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

  Christopher Fry

  Serenity, Dry, Determined

  Christopher Fry (2014). “The Firstborn”, p.77, Cambridge University Press

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• The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.

  Christopher Fry

  God, Kissing, Mud

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

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• Where in this small-talking world can I find A longitude with no platitude?

  Christopher Fry

  Talking, World, Platitudes

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

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• The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.

  Christopher Fry

  School, Lines, Fields

  "Why the penalty laws should change" by Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. April 20, 2011.

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• It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

  Christopher Fry

  Vanity, Betray, Manage

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays One”, p.23, Oberon Books

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• Coffee in England is just toasted milk.

  Christopher Fry

  Coffee, Espresso, Milk

  New York Post, November 29, 1962.

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• Religion
  Has made an honest woman of the supernatural,
  And we won't have it kicking over the traces again.

  Christopher Fry

  Religion, Kicking, Honest Woman

  Christopher Fry (1985). “Selected Plays”, p.138, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In our plain defects we already know the brotherhood of man.

  Christopher Fry

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Defects

  Christopher Fry (2007). “Fry: Plays Two”, p.103, Oberon Books

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