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Quotes by Dramatist
"If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go."
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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
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"But for the national welfare, it is urgent to realize that the minorities do think, and think about something other than the race problem."
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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
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"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
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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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"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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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done directly."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"He that doth the ravens feed. Yea providently caters for the sparrow. Be comfort to my age!"
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"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
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"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."
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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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"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
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"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."
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"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
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"Children are very cruel, yes. Of course. Children are extraordinarily cruel little creatures."
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"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
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"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."
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"DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write "whore upon?"
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"It is a crime against the State to be powerful enough to commit one."
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