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Quotes by Dramatist
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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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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"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
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"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
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"Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn."
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"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."
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
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"The glories of our blood and state, Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate, Death lays his icy hand on kings. Scepter and crown must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade."
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"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."
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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...."
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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"If you can run one business well, you can run any business well."
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