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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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"Prejudice - a vagrant opinion without visible means of support."

"One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

"None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves."

"The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."

"Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them."

"He never chooses an opinion; he just wears whatever happens to be in style."

"We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else's opinion that we do not look happy."
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"I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me."

"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
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