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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is easy to give advice from a port of safety."
77
"I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality."
77
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
76
"Science never solves a problem without creating ten more."
76
"The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation that away Men are but gilded loam or painted clay."
76
"Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises."
75
"What's talent but the ability to get away with something?"
75
"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
74
"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."
74
"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."
74
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
74
"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
74
"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
74
"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
73
"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."
73
"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
72
"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."
72
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
72
"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
72
"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
72
"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts."
72
"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,
71
"The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven."
71
"Love comforteth like sunshine after rain."
71
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
70
"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
70
"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
70
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