"Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."
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"He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs."
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"Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'"
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"Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them."
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"Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately"
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"Education and water should be a human right."
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"I personally feel like, if you're watching a film about war, you should get a sense of what it's really like."
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"People will say to you, "Oh, you are fearless." That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really."
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"I'm just lucky to have been in the right place at the right time. Another place, another time, I wouldn't have been as successful. Society enabled me to make my money and my money should go to society."
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"Art, it seems to me, should simplify."
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"As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen."
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"Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves."
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"Why should honor outlive honestly? Orthello"
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"The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
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"What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?"
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"O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself."
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"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."
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"Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?."
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"My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects."
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"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should."
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