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Quotes by Dramatist
"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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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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"Oh, Mercedes, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercedes, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercedes, I must have my revenge!"
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"The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages."
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"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."
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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be...."
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"He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good."
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"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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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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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
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"If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame."
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body."
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"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones."
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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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"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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