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Quotes by Dramatist
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
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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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"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"Dite all'Angelo che veglierA sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si A creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltA di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual."
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"Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds."
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"It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lackof style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give usan impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements ofbeauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, thewhole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenlywe find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of theplay. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonderof the spectacle enthralls us."
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"So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination."
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"I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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"Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing."
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"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
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"I drink to separate my body from my soul."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
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"Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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