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Christopher Fry was a 20th-century English poet and playwright. Christopher Fry was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, especially The Lady's Not for Burning (1948), which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.”
— Christopher Fry
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“THOMAS GuiltyOf mankind. I have perpetrated human nature. My father and mother were accessories before the fact, But therell be no accessories after the fact, By my virility there wont! ...”
— Christopher Fry
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“There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.”
— Christopher Fry
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“Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.”
— Christopher Fry
Window Understanding Birth

“Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.”
— Christopher Fry
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“The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.”
— Christopher Fry
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