Oscar Wilde Quotes

And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

Oscar Wilde

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• When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.

  

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• The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.

  

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• The point here is that straight men, by definition, have nothing to cry about, ever—since, after all, the hold all the cards in contemporary society. What's bizarre is that the author of these words spent forty years of her life married (happily, by all accounts, including her own) to a straight man. The only way to reconcile such rhetoric with her actual life and feelings is to recognize that Sedgwick truly is engaged in an act of performance here—playing a role, putting one over on us.

  

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• And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Tears
  • Outcast