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Quotes by Dramatist
"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old."
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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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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
58
"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."
58
"You told me you had destroyed it.""I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"There is something about poverty that smells like death."
58
"Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up."
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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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"On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least."
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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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"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."
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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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"If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself."
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"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."
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"When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
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"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
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"Socialism must come down from the brain and reach the heart."
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"All for one and one for all."
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"Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts."
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"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
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"They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
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"The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not."
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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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"It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say."
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