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  • The past is prologue.

    Past   Prologue  
  • I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world.

    Writing   Voice   World  
  • Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

    Marriage   Witty   Play  
    'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 10
  • Question the Chestnuts. Chestnuts: the new name for boobs? No. NO. Why would you even say that? Get your mind out of the gutter. No, by "chestnuts" I mean, "those old pieces of writing advice that you hear as common refrain." 'Write what you know.' 'Adverbs give Baby Jesus hemorrhoids.' 'If you write a prologue, an orphan loses his sight.' All the "old saws" need to be put on the chopping block.

    Baby   Jesus   Block  
  • As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'

    Truth   Men   Path  
    Roger Bacon (2016). “Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2”, p.117, University of Pennsylvania Press
  • How many pages are there in my life?? I’ve read only a prologue.. But personally it’s exciting already.

  • God is alpha and omega in the great world: endeavor to make him so in the little world; make him thy evening epilogue and thy morning prologue; practice to make him thy last thought at night when thou sleepest, and thy first thought in the morning when thou awakest; so shall thy fancy be sanctified in the night, and thy understanding rectified in the day; so shall thy rest be peaceful, thy labors prosperous, thy life pious, and thy death glorious.

    God   Morning   Night  
    Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions Divine Contemplative Practical: Moral Ethical Oeconomical Political”, p.59
  • I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.

    Art   Book   Confusing  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion

    Lions   Prologue  
    William Shakespeare (2005). “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, p.30, Shakespeare Comic Books
  • A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

    Past   Office   People  
    Muhammadu Buhari’s Inaugural speech, www.vanguardngr.com. May 29, 2015.
  • From the black ocean comes the appearance of light and waves. It helps you imagine birth. I want imagination in the photographs I take. It's like a prologue. You wonder, What's going on? You feel something is going to happen.

  • Like hungry guests, a sitting audience looks / Plays are like suppers; poets are the cooks / The founder's you; the table is this place / The carvers we; the prologue is the grace / Each act a course, each scene, a different dish.

    Play   Grace   Theatre  
    James Pocock, James Townley, David Garrick, George Farquhar, Nicholas Rowe (1818). “Hit Or Miss! A Musical Farce in Two Acts”
  • The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

    Faith   Religious   Hurt  
  • Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

    FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Mar 10, 2015
  • I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

    Beach   Pain   Loneliness  
  • Thy pride is but the prologue of thy shame; where vain-glory commands, there folly counsels; where pride rides, there shame lackeys.

    Pride   Vanity   Shame  
  • Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified.

    Rachel Vincent (2016). “Stray”, p.65, MIRA
  • Our Father in Heaven planned the coming forth of the Founding Fathersand their form of government as the necessary great prologue leading to the restoration of the gospel... America, the land of liberty, was to be the Lord's latter-day base of operations for His restored church.

  • Preparations are good in life, prologues ruinous.

    Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852). “Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli: In Three Volumes”, p.84
  • I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me.

    Dream   Book   Character  
    Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.24, Profile Books
  • Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love.

    'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 2, l. [165]
  • Most agents hate prologues. Just make the first chapter relevant and well written.

    Hate   Agents   Firsts  
  • The prologues are over. It is a question, now, Of final belief. So, say that final belief Must be in a fiction. It is time to choose.

    Finals   Fiction   Belief  
    'Asides on the Oboe'
  • What is past is prologue.

    Time   Past   History  
    'The Tempest' (1611) act 2, sc. 1, l. [261]
  • I was exhilarated by the new realization that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energized because I realized that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny. (Prologue, xv)

    Bruce H. Lipton (2010). “The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter and Miracles: Easyread Large Edition”, p.11, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Honest error may play prologue to wonders.

    Errors   Play   May  
    Ari Berk (2012). “Death Watch”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
  • And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

    Destiny   Past   Tempest  
    William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44
  • Avoid prologues: they can be ­annoying, especially a prologue ­following an introduction that comes after a foreword.

    "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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