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Quotes by Dramatist
"Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired: he lies like a hyacinth on the sofa, and I worship him."
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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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"Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
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"Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
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"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
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"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."
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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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"Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight.Mercutio: And so did I.Romeo: Well, what was yours?Mercutio: That dreamers often lie."
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"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."
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"If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience."
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"As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous."
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"He was a man of most subtle and refined intellect. A man of culture, charm, and distinction. One of the most intellectual men I ever met.""I prefer a gentlemanly fool any day. There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
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"Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
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"He does it with a better grace, but I do it more natural."
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
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"The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
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