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Quotes by Dramatist
"The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh."
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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."
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"The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered."
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"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
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"Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;But do not dull thy palm with entertainmentOf each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
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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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"That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud, and the world overhears them."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."
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"Surely man was not created to be an idle fellow; he was not set in this universal orchard to stand still as a tree."
Man,
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"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board."
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"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
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"The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world."
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"To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness."
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
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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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"A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights."
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"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."
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"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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"Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness."
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"Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out."
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"I am not young enough to know everything."
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"Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
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"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."
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"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."
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"The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life."
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"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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