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Quotes by Dramatist
"Now is the winter of our discontent."
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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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"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
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"The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there."
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"But we who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. We have nothing else to think of. Suffering - curious as it may sound to you - is the means by which we exist, because it is the only means by which we become conscious of existing; and the remembrance of suffering in the past is necessary to us as the warrant, the evidence, of our continued identity."
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"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"He that commends me to mine own contentCommends me to the thing I cannot get.I to the world am like a drop of waterThat in the ocean seeks another drop,Who, falling there to find his fellow forth,Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself:So I, to find a mother and a brother,In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
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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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"Mary Farquhar, who always flirts with her own husband across the dinner-table. That is not very pleasant. Indeed, it is not even decent . . . and that sort of thing is enormously on the increase. The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public..."
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"It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
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"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
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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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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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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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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"Beatrice: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior Benedick: nobody marks you.Benedick: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?"
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"Courage mounteth with occasion."
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"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
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"You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing. You lost life's secret."
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"Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious."
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