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Quotes by Dramatist
"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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"Intelligence is nothing without delight."
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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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"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics."
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"Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor."
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"The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks."
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"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
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"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields."
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"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
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"Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave."
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"The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away."
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"Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom."
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"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
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"It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so."
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"And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with good, and thy love is stronger than I am. Wherefore will I tempt thee no longer, but I pray thee to suffer me to enter thy heart, that I may be with thee even as before.""Surely thou mayest enter," said the young Fisherman, "for in the days when with no heart thou didst go through the world thou must have suffered.""Alas!" cried his Soul, "I can find no place of entrance, so compassed about with love is this heart of thine."
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"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
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"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
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"Some of the words and symbols and images from childhood will continually be part and parcel of my personality."
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"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
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"Through tattered clothes great vices do appear, Robes and furred gowns hide all."
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"Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence."
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"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
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"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something."
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"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."
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"I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me."
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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
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"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
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