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Quotes by Dramatist
"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
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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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"Men are wise in proportion not to their experience but to their capacity for experience."
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"There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it."
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"And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation."
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"For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."
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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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"People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
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"The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well."
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"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
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"Going to see plays isn't what you people should do. Try looking at yourselves a little more often and see what gray lives you all lead. How much of what you say is unnecessary."
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"I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
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"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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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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"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
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"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
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"A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life."
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"I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me."
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"Formerly, when I would feel a desire to understand someone, or myself, I would take into consideration not actions, in which everything is relative, but wishes. Tell me what you want and I'll tell you who you are."
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"We're actors - we're the opposite of people!"
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"The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things."
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"A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires."
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"O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
God,
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"Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
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"Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
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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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"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked."
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"Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees..."
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