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“The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.”

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Charles Macklin, a renowned British dramatist, was born on September 26, 1690, and died on July 11, 1797. He is known for his diverse dramatic works, which were well-received by audiences of his time. more

“I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?”

Ifs Heart Running Desire Order Sex Hours Cry My Heart Bed Cat Tests Sensuality Torture Endurance Cried Caves Accumulation Dove Angelic Hounds Havoc Menagerie

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“I am possessed by love and have no options.”

Possessed

Book:By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

“Always that tyrannical love reaches out. Soft words shrivel me like quicklime. She will not allow me to be cold, hungry. She will insist that I take her own coat, her own food.”

Cold Hungry Reach Out Coats

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“What is poetry? Do not enquire. The secret dies by prying. How does the heart beat? I fainted when I saw it on the screen, opening and closing like a flower ... Poetry is like this, it is life moving, terrible, vivid. Look the other way when you write, or you might faint.”

Way Writing Looks Heart Doe Might Moving Poetry Dies Secret Saws Flower Terrible Beats Screens Opening Poetry Is Vivid Closing Heart Beat What Is Poetry

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.”

Time Can Do All Time

Book:By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

Source: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals

“You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.”

Believe Causes Blind

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.”

Bigs Not Interested Big Things

Book:Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart

Source: Necessary secrets: the journals of Elizabeth Smart

“Conversation is the fine art of mutual consideration and communication about matters of common interest that basically have some human importance.”

Humans Art Matter Interest Common Communication Fine Conversation Importance Consideration Mutual Fine Arts Common Interests

Author:Ordway Tead

“A talent for repartee is one that increases with practice.”

Practice Talent Increase Repartee

Author:John Lothrop Motley

“Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience, day by day, Even this shall pass away.”

Hard Pain Difficult Bears Passing Away Difficult Days

Book:THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS

Source: THE SEXTON'S TALE, AND OTHER POEMS

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