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Quotes by Dramatist
"Anybody can make history, only a great man can write it."
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"One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake."
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"Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry."
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"You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography."
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"Dear little Swallow,' said the Prince, 'you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
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"But man, proud man,Dress'd in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd-His glassy essence-like an angry apePlays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens,Would all themselves laugh mortal."
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"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
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"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
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"When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them."
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"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
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"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part."
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"There is a woman at the beginning of all great things."
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"A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom."
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"Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant...."
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"The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure."
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"There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'stBut in his motion like an angel sings,Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls,But whilst this muddy vesture of decayDoth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it."
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"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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"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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"It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children."
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"Parentage is a very important profession but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interests of the Children."
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"Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."
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