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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"Man is many things, but he is not rational."
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"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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"Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own."
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"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."
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"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
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"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid."
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"What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that; move still, still so,And own no other function: each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens."
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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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"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
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"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."
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"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom."
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"Marriage is a matter for common sense.""But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from heresay?""No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
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"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
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"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."
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"It is matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason."
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