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Quotes by Dramatist
"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."
48
"Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination."
40
"How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out."
37
"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."
35
"How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words."
34
"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
33
"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."
32
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally."
31
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
30
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
28
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
24
"The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
24
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
23
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
22
"There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses."
21
"We possess only the happiness we are able to understand."
21
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
20
"One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
20
"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."
20
"If you steal from one author it's plagiarism; if you steal from many it's research."
19
"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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19
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
19
"I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action."
18
"If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it."
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