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Quotes by Dramatist

"Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual."

"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."

"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."

"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."

"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."

"Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism."

"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered."

"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."

"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."

"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."

"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."

"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."

"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
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