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Quotes by Dramatist
"Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
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"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
65
"The University brings out all abilities, including incapability."
65
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
64
"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
63
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
63
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
63
"When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant..."
63
"All that passes is raised to the dignity of expression; all that happens is raised to the dignity of meaning. Everything is either symbol or parable."
62
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
62
"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
62
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
61
"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
61
"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
61
"If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example."
61
"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
60
"I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word."
Word,
60
"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
60
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
60
"The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier."
60
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it."
60
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
60
"To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
60
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
60
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
60
"Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny."
60
"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
59
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
59
"What's talent but the ability to get away with something?"
59
"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
59
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
58
"Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,Is the immediate jewel of their souls:Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;But he that filches from me my good nameRobs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
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"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
58
"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
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