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Quotes by Dramatist
"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
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"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public..."
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
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"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."
Time,
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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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"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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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
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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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"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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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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"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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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long."
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