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Quotes by Dramatist
"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
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"You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him."
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"Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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"Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage."
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"I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say."
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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit."
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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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"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
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"Friar Laurence:O, mickle is the powerful grace that liesIn herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought to vile that on the earth doth live, But to the earth some special good doth give; nor aught so good, but, strain'd from that fair use, Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime's by action dignified."
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"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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"Dite all'Angelo che veglierA sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si A creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltA di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza."
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"The sweetest honey is loathsome in its own deliciousness. And in the taste destroys the appetite. Therefore, love moderately."
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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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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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"Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money."
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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
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"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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