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Christopher Fry [1907-2005] English

Rank: 102
Playwright, Poet

Christopher Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably The Lady's Not for Burning, which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.

Death, Faith, Funny, Imagination, Poetry, Truth

Quote	Tags	Rank
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.	Faith, Truth	101
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.	Funny	102
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.	Death	103
The dark is light enough.		104
In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.		105
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.		106
The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school.		107
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.	Imagination	108
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.		109
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.	Poetry	110
I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.		111
Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.		112
Coffee in England is just toasted milk.		113

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