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Quotes by Dramatist
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
37
"If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything."
37
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
37
"So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber."
37
"Television is democracy at its ugliest."
36
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
36
"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
Work,
36
"Well, what do they all amount to, these kings and captains and bishops and lawyers and such like? They just leave you in the ditch to bleed to death; and the next thing is, you meet them down there, for all the airs they give themselves."
36
"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."
36
"To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
36
"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."
36
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
36
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
36
"Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view."
Baby,
36
"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
36
"The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me."
36
"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
36
"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."
36
"If knowledge isn't self-knowledge it isn't doing much, mate. Is the universe expanding? Is it contracting? Is it standing on one leg and singing 'When Father Painted the Parlour'? Leave me out. I can expand my universe without you. 'She walks into beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies, and all that's best of dark and bright meet in her aspect and her eyes."
36
"We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is, how do you make a poem by Pushkin?- or, what exactly makes one poem or painting or piece of music greater than another?- or, what is beauty?, or liberty?, or virtue?- if the question is, how should we live?. . . then, reason gives no answer or different answers. So something went wrong. The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist . . ."
36
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
35
"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
35
"We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless."
35
"When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome."
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