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Quotes by Dramatist
"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid."
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"A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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"Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount."
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"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."
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"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
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"Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up."
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"Gods always behave like the people who make them."
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"So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,Obscures the show of evil? In religion,What damned error, but some sober browWill bless it and approve it with a text,Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?There is no vice so simple but assumesSome mark of virtue on his outward parts."
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"Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception."
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"How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
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"Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip."
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer."
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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"It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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"If I got rid of my demons, I'd lose my angels."
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"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
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"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
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"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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"The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror."
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"And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life."
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