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Quotes by Dramatist
"Macbeth does murder sleep - the innocent sleep,Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care,The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, chief nourisher in life's feast."
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"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember."
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"The best thing I know between France and England is the sea."
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"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
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"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."
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"Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins."
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"I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat."
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"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
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"Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness."
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"Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation."
Time,
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"With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade."
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"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there."
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"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
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"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
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"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
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"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
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"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
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"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
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"When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast."
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"The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it."
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"Let them obey that know not how to rule."
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"The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead."
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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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"Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked."
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