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Quotes by Playwright
"The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes."
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"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."
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"You can create a good impression on yourself by being right, he realizes, but for creating a good impression on others there's nothing to beat being totally and catastrophically wrong."
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"Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing."
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"Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else."
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"Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail."
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"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise."
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"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."
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"Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith."
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"The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture."
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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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"Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature."
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"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
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"A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate."
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"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble."
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"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
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"True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise."
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"I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and meticulous, bizarre."
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"Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play."
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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."
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"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
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"A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general."
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"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult."
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"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
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"For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"I will continue to write moral stories in rhymed couplets. But I should be thrice a fool if I did it for aught but my own entertainment."
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"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."
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"I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist."
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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
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"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."
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"I've sometimes thought of marrying - and then I've thought again."
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"Except for the sound of the rain, on the road, on the roofs, on the umbrella, there was absolute silence: only the dying moan of the sirens continued for a moment or two to vibrate within the ear. It seemed to Scobie later that this was the ultimate border he had reached in happiness: being in darkness, alone, with the rain falling, without love or pity."
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"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
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"Suddenly watching her feet, so light and precise and mistress of his shuffle, I was in love again."
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"The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they can carry on an amusing and animated conversation without giving a moment's reflection to what they are saying and so leave their minds free to consider the more important matters of big business and fornication."
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"I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life."
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"Harmony is pure love, for love is complete agreement."
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"Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy."
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