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Quotes by Dramatist
"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
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"Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other."
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"Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.."
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"Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together."
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell,
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"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
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"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
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"I don't ask for your pity but just your understanding - no not even that -no. Just for your recognition of me in you and the enemy time in us all."
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"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible.......Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
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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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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."
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"Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power."
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking."
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"I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"Let me have war, say I: it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."
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"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
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"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
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"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
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"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."
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"A secret is not something unrevealed, but something told privately, in a whisper."
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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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