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Quotes by Dramatist
"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."
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"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
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"A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"Then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well,Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought,Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinable gum. Set you down this,And say besides that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turbaned TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by th' throat the circumcised dogAnd smote him thus."
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"All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial."
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"The royal throne of kings this scepter'd isle This earth of majesty this seat of Mars This other Eden demi-paradise This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war This happy breed of men this little world This precious stone set in the silver sea."
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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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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"Every why hath a wherefore."
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"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
Hell,
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