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Quotes by Playwright
"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
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"Do unto yourself as your neighbors do unto themselves and look pleasant."
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"The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization."
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"Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs."
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"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
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"Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish."
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"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
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"When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire."
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"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write."
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"Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up."
Now,
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"By the Declaration of Independence, dreaded by the foes an for a time doubtfully viewed by many of the friends of America, everything stood on a new and more respectable footing, both with regard to the operations of war or negotiations with foreign powers."
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"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."
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"There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously."
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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
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"Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day."
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"How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode."
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"Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust."
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"Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive."
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"Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created."
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"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
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"This was hell then, it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room."
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"I never knew a man who had better motives for all the trouble he caused."
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"I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing."
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"Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination."
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"The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry."
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"Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable."
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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
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"He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?"
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"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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"Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life."
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"Switzerland is only bearable covered with snow," Aunt Augusta said, "like some people are only bearable under a sheet."
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"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."
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"I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything."
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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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"Life isn't long enough for love and art."
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"Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up."
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"Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element."
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