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Quotes by Dramatist
"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
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"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
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"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
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"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"In fine, nothing is said now that has not been said before."
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"This sometimes happened: from time to time, DantA s, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?"
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
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"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
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"Three o'clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can't sleep, I am so happy."
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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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