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Quotes by Dramatist
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
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"I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man."
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."
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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"So overjoyed were they at their deliverance that they laughed aloud, and the Earth seemed to them like a flower of silver, and the Moon like a flower of gold."
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"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
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"There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
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"To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude."
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"The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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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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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
Work,
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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