Quote by Christopher Fry
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow esca

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith. – Christopher Fry

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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. – Christopher Fry

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Poetry
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The moon is nothing but a circumambulating aphrodisiac divinely subsidized to provoke the world into a rising birth-rate. – Christopher Fry

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Sky & Clouds
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Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. – Christopher Fry

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Death
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Why should any man have power over any other mans faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? – George Fox

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Ultimately its a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react. – Derek Jacobi

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Faith

Faith is a state of openness or trust. – Alan Watts

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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. – William Ellery Channing

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No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, its all right. Were scared that if the truth comes out that its not all right. Its the other way around. – Yoko Ono

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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My mom, Emilie, always taught me to think hard about marriage. – Alyson Hannigan

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