Themes
Harold Pinter:
- “One way of looking at speech is to say it is a stratagem to cover nakedness.”
- “What goes on in my plays is realistic, but what I’m doing is not realism.”
- “The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.”
- “A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.”
Cecily in The Importance of being Earnest by Oscar Wilde::
- "Memory usually chronicles the things that have never happened, and couldn’t possibly have happened.”
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Famous quotes containing the word themes:
“In economics, we borrowed from the Bourbons; in foreign policy, we drew on themes fashioned by the nomad warriors of the Eurasian steppes. In spiritual matters, we emulated the braying intolerance of our archenemies, the Shi’ite fundamentalists.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)