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Quotes by Dramatist
"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen."
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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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"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"Country life has its advantages,' he used to say. 'You sit on the veranda drinking tea and your ducklings swim on the pond, and everything smells good. . . and there are gooseberries."
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"There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,Doing more murder in this loathsome world,Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
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"I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design."
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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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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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"I refuse the compliment that I think like a man, thought has no sex, one either thinks or one does not."
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"Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat?Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat.Rosencrantz: I've frequently not been on boats.Guildenstern: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats."
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"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
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"In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me."
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"For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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"Borkin: Ladies and gentlemen, why are you so glum? Sitting there like a jury after it's been sworn in! ... Let's think up something. What would you like? Forfeits, tug of war, catch, dancing, fireworks?"
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"In every pleasure, cruelty has its place..."
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"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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"That such a slave as this should wear a sword,Who wears no honesty. Such smiling rogues as these,Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwainWhich are too intrinse t' unloose; smooth every passionThat in the natures of their lords rebel,Being oil to the fire, snow to the colder moods,Renege, affirm, and turn their halcyon beaksWith every gale and vary of their mastersKnowing naught, like dogs, but following."
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"Love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow."
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"Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
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"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself."
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"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."
Time,
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"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish."
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