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Quotes by Playwright
"New landscapes, new customs. The accumulation of memories. A long life is not a question of years. A man without memories might reach the age of a hundred and feel that his life had been a very brief one."
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"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."
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"I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
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"But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce."
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"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
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"A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation."
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"Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write."
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"Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked."
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"There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing."
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"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."
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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
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"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."
Goal,
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"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer."
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"Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from."
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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
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"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
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"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."
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"I would gladly do it but I am suffering from social phobia. I cannot manage being in a crowd of people."
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"I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden."
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"That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
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"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
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"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
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"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
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"Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way."
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"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some."
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"I can't go on, I'll go on."
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"Frenchmen have an unlimited capacity for gallantry and indulge it on every occasion."
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"There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother."
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"Tolerance is another word for indifference."
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"For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness."
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"Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny."
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"He had always despised people who thought about the past. To live was to leave behind, to be as free as a shipwrecked man who has lost everything."
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"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."
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"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
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"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous."
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"But it is impossible to go through life without trust; that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself."
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"He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch."
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"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
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"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
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"The extraordinary exertions of the colonies, in cooperation with British measures, against the French, in the late war, were acknowledged by the British parliament to be more than adequate to their ability."
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