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Quotes by Dramatist
"A woman's best protection is a little money of her own."
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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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"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life."
Life,
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"Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position."
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"The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
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"You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone."
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"When something is Festering on your memory or in your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant..."
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"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."
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"The doctors found out that Bunbury could not live, that is what I mean - so Bunbury died.He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians. I am glad, however, that he made up his mind at the last to some definite course of action, and acted under proper medical advice."
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"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."
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"I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon."
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"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."
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"Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time."
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"Gossip is more popular than literature."
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"The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
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"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
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"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
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"James Joyce - an essentially private man who wished his total indifference to public notice to be universally recognized."
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"The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
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