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Quotes by Dramatist
"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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"It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked."
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"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady."
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"My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality."
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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
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"Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done."
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"I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any country to say what he thinks."
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"Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see ...each other in life. Vanity, fear, desire, competition-- all such distortions within our own egos-- condition our vision of those in relation to us. Add to those distortions to our own egos the corresponding distortions in the egos of others, and you see how cloudy the glass must become through which we look at each other. That's how it is in all living relationships except when there is that rare case of two people who love intensely enough to burn through all those layers of opacity and see each other's naked hearts."
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"The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy, and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes."
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
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"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
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"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
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"This story shall the good man teach his son;And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
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"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"
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"The rest of my days I'm going to spend on the sea. And when I die, I'm going to die on the sea. You know what I shall die of? I shall die of eating an unwashed grape. One day out on the ocean I will die--with my hand in the hand of some nice looking ship's doctor, a very young one with a small blond moustache and a big silver watch. "Poor lady," they'll say, "The quinine did her no good. That unwashed grape has transported her soul to heaven."
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"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
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"Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid."
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"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
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"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
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"Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me."
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"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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"For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch."
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