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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
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Oscar Wilde
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
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"There is no sin except stupidity."
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Oscar Wilde
"There is no sin except stupidity."
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"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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Alexandre Dumas
"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
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"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
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Georg Buchner
"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
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"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
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Friedrich Schiller
"As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe."
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"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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Wilson Mizner
"Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him."
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"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
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Wole Soyinka
"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
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"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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Harold Pinter
"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
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Christopher Marlowe
"Above our life we love a steadfast friend."
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"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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Jean Genet
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
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"I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them."
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Oscar Wilde
"I keep a diary in order to enter the wonderful secrets of my life. If I didn't write them down, I should not probably forget all about them."
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"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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William Shakespeare
"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
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George Bernard Shaw
"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
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"Mum's the word."
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George Colman
"Mum's the word."
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"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
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Richard Steele
"Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body."
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"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
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William Shakespeare
"With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
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"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
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Lillian Hellman
"Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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Wole Soyinka
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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Harold Pinter
"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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"I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."
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John Ford
"I am... a mushroom; On whom the dew of heaven drops now and then."
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"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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Georg Buchner
"Whoever finishes a revolution only halfway, digs his own grave."
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"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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Oscar Wilde
"They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance."
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"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
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Antonin Artaud
"It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present."
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"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."
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Hugh Leonard
"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."
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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
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Edward Albee
"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
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"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
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William Shakespeare
"Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
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"And nothing is, but what is not."
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William Shakespeare
"And nothing is, but what is not."
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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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George Bernard Shaw
"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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"Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth."
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Edward Moore
"Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth."
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"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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William Shakespeare
"Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
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"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."
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Anton Chekhov
"I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky."
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"The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry."
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Henry Taylor
"The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry."
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"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."
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Eugene O'Neill
"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."
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"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
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George Bernard Shaw
"If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters."
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"When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!"
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William Shakespeare
"When sorrows come they come not as single spies But in battalions!"
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"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
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Alan Bennett
"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."
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"He that dies pays all debts."
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William Shakespeare
"He that dies pays all debts."
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"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent."
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"The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears."
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Wilson Mizner
"The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears."
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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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Friedrich Schiller
"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."
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George Bernard Shaw
"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."
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"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
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Edward Albee
"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
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"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."
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James Shirley
"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."
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"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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Harold Pinter
"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."
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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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George Bernard Shaw
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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George Bernard Shaw
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
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"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."
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William Shakespeare
"Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."
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"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money."
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Alexandre Dumas
"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money."
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"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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William Shakespeare
"A young man married is a man that's marred."
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