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Quotes by Playwright
"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."
43
"Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure."
43
"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."
43
"Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend."
43
"As a main ingredient to the show, it has to have truth, represent truth, or else it won't last."
43
"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists."
43
"I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other."
42
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December."
42
"If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts."
42
"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."
42
"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity."
42
"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
42
"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."
42
"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
42
"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."
42
"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds."
42
"There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double."
42
"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
42
"I'm very into the first production of the show."
42
"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."
42
"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"
42
"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."
42
"The progress of the American Revolution has been so rapid and such the alteration of manners, the blending of characters, and the new train of ideas that almost universally prevail, that the principles which animated to the noblest exertions have been nearly annihilated."
42
"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
42
"Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time."
42
"It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble."
42
"The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress."
42
"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."
42
"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."
42
"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."
42
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
42
"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."
42
"They comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same."
42
"He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn."
42
"He disapproved, he didn't believe in girls drinking, he was full of the conventions of a generation older than himself. Of course one drank oneself, one fornicated, but one didn't lie with a friend's sister, and 'decent' girls were never squiffy."
42
"In a way, the American side descended to Saddam's level, which happens often in these types of circumstances. That is why the people in Iraq do not accept the current state of affairs."
42
"I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick."
42
"I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart."
42
"Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast."
42
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
42
"Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance."
42
"It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man."
42
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature."
42
"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."
42
"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
42
"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
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