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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it."
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"The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty."
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"It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character."
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"Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
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"Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers."
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"To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
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"Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?"
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"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
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"He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice."
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"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
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"To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
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"There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man."
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"Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
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"The State is not God. It has not the right to take away what it cannot restore when it wants to."
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"Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone."
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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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"What is there flattering, amusing, or edifying in their carving your name on a tombstone, then time rubbing off the inscription together with the gilding?"
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"I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much."
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"A schedule so tight that it would only work if I didn't sleep on Monday nights."
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"Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character. For in the intimacies which are formed by shy men, they do not choose, but are chosen."
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"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
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"Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?"
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