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Quotes by Playwright
"A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that "ancient institution" the old one."
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"The government has once again made the right socially acceptable."
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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 had been frightened and so he had been vehement."
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"Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users."
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"When there was a choice between love of a woman and hate of a man, her mind could cherish only one emotion, for her love might be a subject for laughter, but no one ever had ever mocked her hatred."
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"He could breathe more freely in a lighter air. He was responsible only to himself for the things he did. Freedom! He was his own master at last. From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him."
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"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."
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"When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs."
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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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"Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."
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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
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"She gathered herself together. No one could describe the scorn of her expression or the contemptuous hatred she put into her answer. "You men! You filthy dirty pigs! You're all the same, all of you. Pigs! Pigs!"
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"It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter."
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"Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates."
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"I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result."
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"I mean New York City is the financial capital of the world. It's where all the money passes through, the Dow Jones, whatever, that's where all the money goes."
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"The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero."
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"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?"
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"God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour."
10
"Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too."
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"As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
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"You don't bless what you love...It's when you want to love and you can't manage it. You stretch out your hands and you say God forgive me that I can't love but bless this thing anyway...We have to bless what we hate...It would be better to love, but that's not always possible."
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"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
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"And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity."
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"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."
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"Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity."
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"Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left."
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"Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best."
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"ESTRAGON: Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!VLADIMIR: Did I ever leave you?ESTRAGON: You let me go."
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"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
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"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."
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"Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience."
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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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"In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness."
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"Avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy."
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"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
War,
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