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Quotes by Dramatist
"Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive."
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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
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"How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can't make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.""I say it's perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
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"Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor."
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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more."
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
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"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
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"Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that loads 'em."
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation."
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"But if we reason it out simply and not try to be one bit fancy, then what sort of pride can you possibly take or what's the sense of ever having it, if man is poorly put together as a physiological type and if the enormous majority of the human race is brutal, stupid, and profoundly unhappy?"
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"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience."
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"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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"He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good."
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