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Quotes by Dramatist
"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own."
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"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."
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"But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd-His glassy essence-like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal."
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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"The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted."
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"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."
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"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
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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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"Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
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"He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts."
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"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
Hell,
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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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"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."
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"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
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"Let us not burthen our remembrance withA heaviness that's gone."
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"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."
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"Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car."
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