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Quotes by Dramatist
"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"Be yourself, everyone else is already taken."
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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
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"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
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"And the existence is tedious, anyway; it is a senseless, dirty business, this life."
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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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"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
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"One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer."
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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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"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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