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Quotes by Dramatist
"I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence."
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"No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell."
Hell,
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"Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children."
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"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow."
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"There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened."
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"Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood."
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"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
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"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."
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"My noble father,I do perceive here a divided duty.To you I am bound for life and education.My life and education both do learn meHow to respect you. You are the lord of my duty,I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband,And so much duty as my mother showedTo you, preferring you before her father,So much I challenge that I may professDue to the Moor my lord."
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"Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still."
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"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."
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"This sometimes happened: from time to time, DantA s, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?"
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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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"Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face."
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"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
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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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"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
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"There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules."
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"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
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"I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring."
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"Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering."
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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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"Advertising is the very essence of democracy."
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"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
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"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he today that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
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"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace."
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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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