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Quotes by Dramatist

"Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something."

"When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."

"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."

"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt."

"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."

"Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton."

"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it."

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."

"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."

"Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."

"I know of no sentence that can induce such immediate and brazen lying as the one that begins, 'Have you read - .'"

"Were we closer to the ground as children, or is the grass emptier now?"

"When we conquer without danger our triumph is without glory."

"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

"I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own."

"I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate."
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