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Quotes by Dramatist
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
93
"My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being."
92
"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
92
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
83
"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."
83
"Mankind is made great or little by its own will."
80
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
80
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
79
"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves."
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79
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
78
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
77
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
75
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
74
"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
70
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
69
"Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get."
69
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
67
"See, even despite pious statements to the contrary, much of the industrialized world has not yet come to terms with the recognition of the fallacy of what I call the strong man syndrome."
64
"I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't."
64
"Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity."
64
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
62
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
60
"Freedom can occur only through education."
60
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