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Quotes by Dramatist
"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens."
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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 truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods."
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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
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"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
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"I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel."
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"O serpent heart hid with a flowering face!Did ever a dragon keep so fair a cave?Beautiful tyrant, feind angelical, dove feather raven, wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of devinest show, just opposite to what thou justly seemest - A dammed saint, an honourable villain!"
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
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"Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art."
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"A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages."
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"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?"
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"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
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"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."
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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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"I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him."
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"Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the struggle has got, with the animals not too far behind, vegetables somewhat lagging, and rocks nowhere as yet. Do we believe this? Does it matter? Think of it as a poem or a painting. Art doesn't have to be true like a theorem. It can be true in other ways. This truth says there is a meaning to it all, and Man is where the meaning begins to show."
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"Byron: The luxuries of this place have made me soft.The metal point's gone from my pen, there's nothing left but the feather.Gutman:That may be true.But what can you do about it?Byron:Make a departure.Gutman:From yourself?Byron:From my present self to myself as I used to be!Gutman:That's the furthest departure a man could make!"
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"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
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"Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?"
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"It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature."
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