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Quotes by Playwright
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
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"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
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"I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed."
49
"We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it."
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"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make."
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"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall."
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"I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me."
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"Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?"
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"A declaration of the independence of America, and the sovereignty of the United STates was drawn by the ingenious and philosophic pen of Thomas Jefferson, Esquire, a delegate from the state of Virginia."
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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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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin."
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"It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease."
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"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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"All evil comes from the old.They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them."
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"I had seen the flowers on her dress beside the canals in the north, she was indigenous like a herb, and I never wanted to go home."
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"The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading."
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"Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?"
48
"Laughter can bring a new perspective."
48
"One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose."
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"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."
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"A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else."
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"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him."
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"That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously."
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"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."
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"The most useless are those who never change through the years."
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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
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"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."
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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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"The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can."
Home,
48
"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."
48
"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
48
"General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York."
48
"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
48
"He was not crying for the pain they had caused him, nor for the humiliation he had suffered when they looked at his foot, but with rage at himself because, unable to stand the torture, he had put out his foot of his own accord."
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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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"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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"All which is not prose is verse; and all which is not verse is prose."
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"And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And perhaps he has come to that stage of his instant when to live is to wander the last of the living in the depths of an instant without bounds, where the light never changes and the wrecks all look alike. Bluer scarcely than white of egg the eyes stare into the space before them, namely the fullness of the great deep and unchanging calm. But at long intervals they close, with the gentle suddenness of flesh that tightens, often without anger, and closes on itself."
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