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Quotes by Dramatist
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."
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"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."
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"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
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"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it."
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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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"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."
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"I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand."
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"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
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"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
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"Thou of thyself thy sweet self dost deceive."
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"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
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"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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