Terence Rattigan
Terence Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan, CBEwas a British dramatist. He was one of England's most popular mid twentieth century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He is known for such works as The Winslow Boy, The Browning Version, The Deep Blue Seaand Separate Tables, among many others...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth10 June 1911
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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.
good
Will this new play be good or bad? Nothing else matters. Nothing at all.
mean despair faces
To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.
death insults-you trying
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.
powerful men firsts
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?