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Quotes by Dramatist
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
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"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat."
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"The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling."
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"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."
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"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."
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"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
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"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
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