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Quotes by Dramatist
"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
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"If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic."
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"If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first."
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"I think with every writer there are two people there."
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
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"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else."
Body,
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."
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"Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?"
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"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."
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"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork."
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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
Work,
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"The House of Lords, an illusion to which I have never been able to subscribe - responsibility without power, the prerogative of the eunuch throughout the ages."
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
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"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out."
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"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
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"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
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"Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. All cheer for Shakespearean insults."
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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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