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Quotes by Dramatist
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
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"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us."
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"The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Because other people are not such wonderful people. They're one hundred times one thousand. You're one times one! They walk all over the earth. You just stay here."
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"She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious."
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"I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
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"I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
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"The low-tone clarinet moans. The door upstairs opens again. Stella slips down the rickety stairs in her robe. Her eyes are glistening with tears and her hair loose about her throat and shoulders. They stare at each other. Then they come together with low, animal moans. He falls to his knees on the steps and presses his face to her belly, curving a little with maternity. Her eyes go blind with tenderness as she catches his head and raises him level with her. He snatches the screen door open and lifts her off her feet and bears her into the dark flat."
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"The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself."
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"The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"The manner of giving is worth more than the gift."
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"Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama."
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"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
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"O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
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"So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three."
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"From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts."
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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
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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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"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."
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"I don't act, I don't direct, I don't design."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
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"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
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"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly."
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"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
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"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."
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"In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me."
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"One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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