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Quotes by Dramatist
"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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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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"It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace."
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"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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"Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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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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"Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering - curious as it may sound to you - is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity."
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"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."
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"Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."
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"Dite all'Angelo che veglierA sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si A creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltA di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza."
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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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"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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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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"He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people."
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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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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"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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