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Quotes by Dramatist
"Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in. That's why you can't believe in the afterlife, Valentine. Believe in the after, by all means, but not the life. Believe in God, the soul, the spirit, the infinite, believe in angels if you like, but not in the great celestial get-together for an exchange of views. If the answers are in the back of the book I can wait, but what a drag. Better to struggle on knowing that failure is final."
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
29
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
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"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
29
"Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy But not express'd in fancy rich not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
29
"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,
29
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
29
"Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together."
Time,
29
"The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create."
29
"Every why hath a wherefore."
29
"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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"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby,
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"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
29
"Often the test of courage is not to die but to live."
29
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
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"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
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"As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it."
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"Laws of silence don't work. When something is festering in your memory or 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."
29
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
29
"He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."
28
"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers."
28
"Television is democracy at its ugliest."
28
"Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else."
Body,
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