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Quotes by Dramatist
"We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements."
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"Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass."
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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 family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to."
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"The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means."
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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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"From this day to the ending of the world,But we in it shall be remembered-We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;For he to-day that sheds his blood with meShall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,This day shall gentle his condition;And gentlemen in England now-a-bedShall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaksThat fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
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"Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves."
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"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
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"Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?"
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"A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband."
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"Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others."
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"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
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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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"To you, whoever you are, when I am gone - remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me."
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"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
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"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
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