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Quotes by Dramatist

"Lice consume grass, rust consumes iron, and lying the soul!"

"The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others."

"No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled. From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell; Nay, if you read this line, remember not. The hand that writ it; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then would make you woe."

"O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."


"We are only puppets, our strings are being pulled by unknown forces."

"Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock."

"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."

"Television is democracy at its ugliest."

"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else."
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"Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?"

"Make the doors upon a woman's wit,and it will out at the casement;shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."

"Charming women can true converts make, We love the precepts for the teacher's sake."

"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"

"Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die."


"The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world."

"I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor."
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