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Quotes by Dramatist
"I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
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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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"A fool's bolt is soon shot."
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"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder."
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"Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part."
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"Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
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"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
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"Conscience does make cowards of us all."
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"We said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows."
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"The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart."
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"Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you."
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"LUBOV. I'm quite sure there wasn't anything at all funny. You oughtn't to go and see plays, you ought to go and look at yourself. What a grey life you lead, what a lot you talk unnecessarily."
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"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
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"It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook."
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"The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
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"The art of government is the organization of idolatry."
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"Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance."
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"Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?"
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"Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success."
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"Loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin."
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"Men know life too early women know life too late."
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"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
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"To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
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"Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."
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"The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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