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Christopher Fry

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What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.


— Christopher Fry


#clean #halo #keep #more #only

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.


— Christopher Fry


#eye #imagination #leads #more #see

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.


— Christopher Fry


#despair #escape #faith #into #narrow

I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.


— Christopher Fry


#corner #existence #first #first time #had

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.


— Christopher Fry


#birth #brushes #death #may #moth

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


#attention #being #drawback #full #give

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.


— Christopher Fry


#eternity #every #moment #tragedy

Coffee in England is just toasted milk.


— Christopher Fry


#england #just #milk #toasted

Has made an honest woman of the supernatural.


— Christopher Fry


#made #supernatural #woman

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.


— Christopher Fry


#corner #first #first time #had #i






About Christopher Fry






Did you know about Christopher Fry?

His wife Phyllis whom he married in 1936 died in 1987. In 1954 he collaborated with John Cannan on a screenplay for a film version of John Gay’s The Beggar's Opera for director Peter Brook starring Laurence Olivier. Works
She Shall Have Music (1934) with Monte Crick and F.

Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas notably The Lady's Not for Burning which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s.

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