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Quotes by Dramatist
"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
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"There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy."
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"Epitaph for a dead waiter - God finally caught his eye."
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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,
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"I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
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"It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
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"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul."
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"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
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"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others."
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"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
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"It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself."
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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."
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"I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel."
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"Master of the universe but not of myself, I am the only rebel against my absolute power."
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"He is not only dull in himself, but the cause of dullness in others."
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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"It was useless trying to explain to Cecila that poetry wasn't a commodity, that it could never be bought or sold, that it was, in fact, unteansferrable, remaining forever a part of the one who wrote it."
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"When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of human."
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"HELENA. What a fine day! Not too hot. [A pause.]VOITSKI. A fine day to hang oneself."
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"To hell, allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit!I dare damnation."
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"Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
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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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"Well, I must do't. Away, my disposition, and possess me Some harlot's spirit! My throat of war be turn'd, Which quier'd with my drum, into a pipe Small as an eunuch, or the virgin voice That babies lull asleep! The smiles of knaves Tent in my cheeks, and schoolboys' tears take up The glasses of my sight! A beggar's tongue Make motion through my lips, and my arm'd knees, Who bow'd but in my stirrup, bend like his That hath receiv'd an alms! I will not do't, Lest I surcease to honor mine own truth, And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness."
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"Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory."
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"Women have no appreciation of good looks-at least, good women have not."
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"One half of my life has put the other half in the grave."
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"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
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"Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
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