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Quotes by Dramatist
"I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love."
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"Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
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"We're actors - we're the opposite of people!"
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"Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while the moments pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single immutable fact."
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"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
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"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
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"You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires."
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"There are no commitments, only bargains. And they have to be made again every day. You think making a commitment is it. Finish. You think it sets like a concrete platform and it'll take any strain you want to put on it. You're committed. You don't have to prove anything. In fact you can afford a little neglect, indulge in a little bit of sarcasm here and there, isolate yourself when you want to. Underneath it's concrete for life. I'm a cow in some ways, but you're an idiot."
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"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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"I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead."
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"We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else."
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"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
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"Mendacity is a system that we live in. Liquor is one way out an death's the other."
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"Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves."
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"Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible."
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"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
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"I rather would entreat thy companyTo see the wonders of the world abroadThan, living dully sluggardiz'd at home,Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
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"He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it."
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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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"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
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"Only the shallow know themselves."
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"I write out of my intellectual experience."
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"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
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"Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear,Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.So shows a snowy dove trooping with crowsAs yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessA d my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
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"So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination."
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"Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
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"A Daniel come to judgment! yea a Daniel! O wise young judge how I do honor thee!"
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"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
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"That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library."
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