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Quotes by Dramatist

"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."

"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."

"Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."


"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."

"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."

"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."

"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."

"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."

"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."

"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."

"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."

"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."

"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."

"One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers."

"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."

"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."

"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."

"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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