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Quotes by Dramatist
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo."
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"The fool within himself is the object of pity, until he is flattered."
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"Religion's in the heart, not in the knees."
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"Just vengeance does not call for punishment."
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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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"You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don't want to understand you."
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"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
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"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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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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"Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time."
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"The human animal is a beast that dies and if he's got money he buys and buys and buys and I think the reason he buys everything he can buy is that in the back of his mind he has the crazy hope that one of his purchases will be life everlasting!--Which it never can be...."
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"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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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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"Says he, 'I am a handsome man, but I'm a gay deceiver'."
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"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
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"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
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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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"In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us."
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"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
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"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
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"For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort, so that life would not pass by and retreat into eternity without a trace."
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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."
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