Terence Rattigan

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A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute.
- Terence Rattigan
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Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.
- Terence Rattigan
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It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
- Terence Rattigan
Collection: Powerful
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I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.
- Terence Rattigan
Collection: Death
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To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.
- Terence Rattigan
Collection: Mean