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Quotes by Dramatist
"Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth."
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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward."
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
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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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"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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"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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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
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"Love makes those young whom age doth chill, and whom he finds young keeps young still."
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"Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain."
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"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined."
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity."
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"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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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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"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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"They say in the grave there is peace, and peace and the grave are one and the same."
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"You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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"While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position."
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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that; move still, still so,And own no other function: each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens."
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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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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students."
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