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Quotes by Dramatist
"Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
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"Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
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"Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty."
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
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"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
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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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"It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour."
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"How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
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"I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
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"But then I sigh, with a piece of ScriptureTell them that God bids us to do evil for good; And thus I clothe my naked villanyWith odd old ends stolen out of Holy Writ;And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
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"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
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"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
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"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
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"Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you."
Soul,
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"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life."
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"Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless."
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
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"It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
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"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
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"Morality is not respectability."
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"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
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"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
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"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
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