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Quotes by Dramatist
"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
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"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
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"The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles."
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"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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"If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life."
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
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"The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write."
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"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
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"Friendship is constant in all other thingsSave in the office and affairs of love.Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues.Let every eye negotiate for itself,And trust no agent; for beauty is a witchAgainst whose charms faith melteth into blood."
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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
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"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too."
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"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that."
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"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
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"Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
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"Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated."
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"Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
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"Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
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"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
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"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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