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Christopher Fry, a British poet, was born on December 18, 1907, and passed away on June 30, 2005. His poetry is known for its wit, humor, and profound insight, and he has won numerous literary awards.

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Famous Christopher Fry Quotes

“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.”

Ifs Want Life Firsts Looks Play Running Existence First Time Experience Corners Theatre Corny Commonplace

Author:Christopher Fry

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

Ifs Might Memories Sleep Morning Recollection No Memory

Book:The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy

Source: The Dark is Light Enough: A Winter Comedy

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

Ifs Way I Can Moving Life Is Hypocrite

Book:Selected Plays

Source: Selected Plays

“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.”

Ifs Firsts Humans Real Hands Would Be Wonderful Strange First Time Miracle Mysterious Shocking Wonderful Things Miraculous Human Body Inexplicable Human Hands Mysterious Things

Author:Christopher Fry

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

Ifs Knows Nature Conclusion Incomplete Nature Love

Book:Fry: Plays Two

Source: Fry: Plays Two

“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.”

Ifs Giving Able Attention Half Virtue Prose Seeming Drawbacks

Author:Christopher Fry

About the Author

Born: December 18, 1907
Died: June 30, 2005
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 41

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