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Quotes by Dramatist
"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements ofbeauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, thewhole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenlywe find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of theplay. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonderof the spectacle enthralls us."
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"With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate."
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"You have to assert something about yourself in order to be yourself."
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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
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"I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding."
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"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
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"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."
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"All for one and one for all."
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"All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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"I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in."
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"I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion."
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"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination."
Will,
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