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Quotes by Dramatist
"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
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"When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin."
Want,
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"But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
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"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
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"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?"
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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding."
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"MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can't do anything about it. The things which to us seem serious, significant, very important, - the time will come - they will be forgotten or they will seem of no consequence."
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"It was hard and sour, but, as Poushkin said, the illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. I saw a happy man, one whose dearest dream had come true, who had attained his goal in life, who had got what he wanted, and was pleased with his destiny and with himself."
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"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."
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"Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue."
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"The summer's flower is to the summer sweetThough to itself it only live and die."
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"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
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"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
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"Once a man gets a fixed idea, there's nothing to be done."
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"So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber."
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"Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
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"If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself."
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"Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation."
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"When change itself can give no more, 'Tis easy to be true."
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"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
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"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"There's a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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