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Quotes by Dramatist
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
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"A woman can become a man's friend only in the following stages - first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend."
7
"If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama."
7
"The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
7
"Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism."
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"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
7
"People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."
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"QUINCEFrancis Flute, the bellows-mender.FLUTEHere, Peter Quince.QUINCEFlute, you must take Thisby on you.FLUTEWhat is Thisby? a wandering knight?QUINCEIt is the lady that Pyramus must love.FLUTENay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
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"Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers."
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"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
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"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."
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"A woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere - no right to live. Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift to articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton..."
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"Only the shallow know themselves."
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"A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else."
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"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."
7
"The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read."
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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
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"To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
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"Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose."
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"Each substance of grief hath twenty shadows, which shows like grief itself, but is not so; or sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears, divides one thing entire to many objects: like perspectives which, rightly gaz'd upon, show nothing but confusion."
7
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it never in the tongue Of him that makes it."
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"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
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"A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent."
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"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
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"Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?"
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