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Quotes by Playwright
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together."
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"The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it."
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"Plays are so much more special if they've never ever had a production, but I think you can really work on a play and make it better with each production."
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"It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest."
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"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
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"I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak."
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"Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place."
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"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
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"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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"We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others."
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"It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word."
Word,
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"The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address."
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"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
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"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
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"There is zero debate about whether the world is getting warmer. That is a fact, a measured fact. There is some debate, although not much anymore, about what's causing the world to get warmer. And the consensus, by far is that it's us."
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"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
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"The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence."
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"Take away the violence and who will hear the men of peace?"
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"I can't talk you in terms of time --your time and my time are different."
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"Drama is action, sir, action and not confounded philosophy."
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"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"
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"You must go on.I can't go on.I'll go on."
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"My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane."
Pen,
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"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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"The British were indeed very far superior to the Americans in every respect necessary to military operations, except the revivified courage and resolution, the result of sudden success after despair."
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"The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written."
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"Unmarried couples should get married - that's an excellent tax avoidance measure, if a bit drastic."
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"As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing."
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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
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"Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me."
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"You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day."
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"I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second."
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"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."
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"I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage."
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"On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world."
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"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."
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