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Quotes by Dramatist
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older."
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"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant."
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"It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say."
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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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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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"Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
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"It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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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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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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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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"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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"POLONIUS : My Lord, I will use them according to their desert.HAMLET : God's bodykins man, better. Use every man after his desert, and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty."
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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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"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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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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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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"Doctors are just 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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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valor doesn't await the passing of years."
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"The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
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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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