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Quotes by Dramatist
"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't."
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"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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"Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone; He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!"
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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"Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive."
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"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."
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"Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one's own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influence of which one was more absolutely conscious. There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived in act and circumstance, but as his imagination had created it for him, as if it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management."
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