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Quotes by Dramatist
"It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it."
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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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"Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will 'schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke. Poison and treason are the hands of sin; Ay, and the targets to put off the shame. Then, lest my life be cropped to keep you clear, By flight I'll shun the danger which I fear."
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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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"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
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"Seems," madam? Nay, it is; I know not "seems."'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath,No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage,Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe."
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"The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty against tyranny."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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"Lebedev: A time has come of sorrow and sadness for you. Man, my dear friend, is like a samovar. It doesn't always stand on a shelf in the chill but sometimes they put hot coals in it and it goes psh... psh! This comparison is worthless but you won't think up a cleverer one."
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"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport, when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
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"No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything."
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"It's beauty that captures your attention, personality that captures your heart.."
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"The hope, and not the fact, of advancement, is the spur to industry."
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"Like madness is the glory of this life."
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"The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered."
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"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
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"Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust."
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"It would be one of those evenings when lady luck showed the bitchy streak in her nature."
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"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
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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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"You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished..."
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."
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"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look."
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"The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
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"The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
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"Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels."
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"The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light."
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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person."
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"You said, 'They're harmless dreamers and they're loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams."
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