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Quotes by Dramatist
"Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family."
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation."
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"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."
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"One has to look out for engineers - they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
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"Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch."
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"If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable."
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"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."
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"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."
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"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
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"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat."
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"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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"Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct."
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"A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
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"This tune goes manly.Come, go we to the King. Our power is ready;Our lack is nothing but our leave. MacbethIs ripe for shaking, and the powers abovePut on their instruments. Receive what cheer you may.The night is long that never finds th."
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