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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
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"It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
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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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"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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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
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"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
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"I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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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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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
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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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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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