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Quotes by Dramatist
"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
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"The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it."
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"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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"I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it."
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"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
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"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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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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"Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together."
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"Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet them on your way down."
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"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."
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"And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
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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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"If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it."
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"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents turn awry And lose the name of action."
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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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"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
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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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"Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him."
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