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Quotes by Dramatist
"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, and burnt the topless towers of Ileum?"
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."
Man,
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"O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday."
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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
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"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals."
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry."
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"Talent is a matter of quantity. Talent does not write on page, it writes three hundred."
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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
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"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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"The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
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"I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really."
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"Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care Youth like summer morn age like winter weather Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full sport age's breath is short Youth is nimble age is lame Youth is hot and bold age is weak and cold Youth is wild age is tame. Age I do abhor thee youth I do adore thee."
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"Be not afraid of greatness: some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."
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"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
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"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
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