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Quotes by Dramatist
"He that is thy friend indeed,He will help thee in thy need:If thou sorrow, he will weep;If thou wake, he cannot sleep:Thus of every grief in heartHe with thee doth bear a part.These are certain signs to knowFaithful friend from flattering foe."
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"Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it."
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"To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God."
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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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"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
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"What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them."
Men,
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"It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also."
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"If I had been asked to write 1,200 words for a newspaper tomorrow, on any subject, I would just do it rather than leave a white hole in the page. And I think it's a very healthy attitude to take to writing anything."
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"The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me."
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"Philosophy consists in moderating each life so that many lives will fit together with as much liberty and justice as will keep them together: and not so much as will make them fly apart, when the harm will be the greater."
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"The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
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"Tis mightiest in the mightiest it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown His sceptre shows the force of temporal power The attribute to awe and majesty Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings But mercy is above this sceptred sway It is enthroned in the hearts of kings It is an attribute to God himself And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
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"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
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"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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"We just philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka. It's so clear, you see, that if we're to begin living in the present, we must first of all redeem our past and then be done with it forever. And the only way we can redeem our past is by suffering and by giving ourselves over to exceptional labor, to steadfast and endless labor."
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"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
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"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
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"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
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"Ivanov: Gentlemen, you've again set up a drinking shop in my study... I have asked each and every one of you a thousand times not to do that... Look now, you've spilt vodka on a paper... and there are crumbs... and gherkins... It's disgusting!"
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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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"He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet."
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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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"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both."
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"The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write."
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"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
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"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."
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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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