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Quotes by Playwright
"It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base."
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"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
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"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
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"It's a terrific... you can't put it down. So I phoned him back and I said I'd love to do it. I went over to Paris for a meeting, and we just talked very generally about the approach."
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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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"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem."
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"Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own."
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"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
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"Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not."
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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
Home,
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"My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!"
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"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
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"Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else."
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"Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage."
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
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"The defeat of the Americans in Canada and the advantages gained by the British arms in the Jerseys, and indeed for some months in every other quarter, gave to the royal cause an air of triumph."
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"I mean he's a very famous director... they're not going to put their... and he's very tough, he doesn't like interference at all, so he kept them at bay."
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"Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right."
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"I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them."
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"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
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"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded."
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"A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green."
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"There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double."
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"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
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"A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man."
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"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all."
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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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"Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair."
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"The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress."
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"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."
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"A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back."
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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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"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism."
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"With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil."
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"When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons."
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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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"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."
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"The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control."
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