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Quotes by Dramatist
"If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it."
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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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"To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady."
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"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."
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"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
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"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
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"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
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"Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
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"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
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"Doctors are the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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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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"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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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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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
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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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"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."
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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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"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."
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"DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write "whore upon?"
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"The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
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"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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