Success is relative:
It is what we can make of the mess we have
made of things.

T.S. Eliot

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Success

Speaker

Agatha

Author

T.S. Eliot

Source

The Family Reunion

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Eliot, T. S. The Family Reunion. Performed by Michael Redgrave, Helen Haye, and Catherine Lacey. 1939, Westminster Theatre, London, England, UK, pt. 2, sc. 3.

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Towards the door we never opened
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Source
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Medium
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Language
English
Time
1936 1930s 20th century
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Eliot, T. S. “Burnt Norton.” Collected Poems 1909–1935. Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1936, pt. 1.

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Come on down to my apartment-I want to show you some remarkably fine etchings I just bought.

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The New Yorker
Medium
Magazine
Statement Type
Sexual innuendo Invitation
Language
English
Time
1931 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Parker, Dorothy. New Yorker. c. 25 July 1931.

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Showing up is 80 percent of life.

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How to succeed Success
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Woody Allen
Source
The New York Times
Language
English
Time
1977 1970s 20th century
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Another quote from 1939

I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

The Wicked Witch of the West

The Wizard of Oz

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The Wicked Witch of the West
Actor
Margaret Hamilton
Source
The Wizard of Oz
Medium
Film
Genre
Fantasy (film) Musical (film) Fantasy Musical
Statement Type
Threat
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.