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Quotes by Dramatist
"Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass."
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"The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
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"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
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"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."
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"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
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"The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination,made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain,danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks."
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"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."
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"It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses."
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"That which is so universal as death must be a benefit."
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"With total rapture and delight he talks about the birds which he can see from his prison window, and which he had never noticed before, when he was a minister. Now of course, after he's been released, he doesn't notice the birds anymore, just as beforehand. In the same way you won't notice Moscow, when you actually live there."
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"Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
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"O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express'd.O, learn to read what silent love hath writ:To hear with eyes belongs to love's fine wit."
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."
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"I think with every writer there are two people there."
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"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."
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"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides."
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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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"She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences."
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"Self-control is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
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"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."
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