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Quotes by Playwright
"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."
19
"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
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"Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector. It encourages a man to be expansive, even reckless, while lie detectors are only a challenge to tell lies successfully."
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"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."
19
"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"The last words he said to me when I bade him good-night were:Tell Amy it's no good coming after me. Anyhow, I shall change my hotel, so she wouldn't be able to find me.'My own impression is that she's well rid of you,' I said.My dear fellow, I only hope you'll be able to make her see it. But women are very unintelligent."
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"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
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"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."
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"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."
18
"It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found."
18
"When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself."
18
"I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing."
18
"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
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"There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely."
18
"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."
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"A politician is the devil's quilted anvil; He fashions all sins on him, and the blows are never heard."
18
"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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"A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself."
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"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay."
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"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
18
"This liberty will look easy by and by when nobody dies to get it."
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"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
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"But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews."
18
"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."
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"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist."
18
"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather."
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"I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth."
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"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
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"A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be."
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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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"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."
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"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
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"How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel."
Life,
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"We revolutionaries acknowledge the right to revolution when we see that the situation is no longer tolerable, that it has become a frozen. Then we have the right to overthrow it."
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"A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it."
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"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
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"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
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"A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous."
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"He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her."
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"One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others."
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