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“He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.”

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Pierre Corneille, a French dramatist, was born on June 6, 1606, in Rouen, France, and died on October 1, 1684. He is one of the representatives of French classical drama and is known for his rigorous structure and profound themes. more

“Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.”

Wells Enough Pain Poverty Practice Media Wall Individuality Instance Individualism Mistaken Disgrace Thumbs Misfits Rugged Maverick Credence Iconography Ostracism Rugged Individualism

Author:Lewis H. Lapham

“Painful things are quickly forgotten.”

Pain Forgotten Painful Painful Things

Author:Janet Morris

“Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?”

Pain Painter Baptists Dublin Madrid Irishmen Spaniards John The Baptist

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)

“None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltation by the alchemy of poetry.”

Writing Pain Literature Poet Tragedy Alchemy Exaltation

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.”

People Ends Play Body Running Pain Order Games Accepting Player Violence Middle Football Stress Harmony Distance Calm Satisfaction Brutal Smallest Tranquility

Book:End Zone

Source: End Zone

“We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.”

Doe Important Pain Sound Painting Perspective Speech Series Deeper Defined Planes Phrases Standing Out Foreground Important Words

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.”

Has Beens Pain Events Rose Sticks Finals Rockets

Author:Thomas Paine

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