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Quotes by Dramatist
"An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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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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"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
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"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse."
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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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"I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding."
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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?"
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"This sometimes happened: from time to time, DantA s, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?"
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
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"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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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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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
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"The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle."
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"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."
Will,
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"Gods always behave like the people who make them."
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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."
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