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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
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"His reading suggested a man swimming in the sea among the wreckage of his ship, and trying to save his life by greedily clutching first at one spar and then at another."
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"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that."
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"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
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"Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse."
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"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
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"Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural."
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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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 thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."
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"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not. The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then would make you woe."
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"When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any."
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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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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides."
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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