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Quotes by Dramatist

"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."

"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

"We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife."

"It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it."

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."

"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."

"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."

"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."

"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."

"The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."

"I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."

"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."

"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."


"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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