Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
Christopher Fry
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Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. -
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
More quotes by Christopher Fry
- Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
- Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
- Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
- 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.
- Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.