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Quotes by Playwright
"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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"It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!"
10
"He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid."
10
"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
10
"Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York."
10
"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
Life,
10
"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse."
10
"The most useless are those who never change through the years."
10
"Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature."
10
"On the evening of December 25, General Washington in a most severe season crossed the Delaware with a part of his army, then reduced to less than 2000 men in the whole."
10
"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."
10
"All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'."
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"I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman."
10
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
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"I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door."
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"Has made an honest woman of the supernatural."
10
"Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel."
10
"It is the sincerest thing I have written, caught by the drama of a soul struggling in the contrary toils of love and religion - death brought them into harmony."
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"It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change."
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"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."
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"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one."
10
"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
10
"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
10
"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,
10
"I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life."
10
"However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet."
10
"I grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, really in suburbia, so my mother was in community theatre plays."
10
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
10
"Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does."
10
"I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time."
10
"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."
10
"I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted."
10
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
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"What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play."
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"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."
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"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."
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"Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears."
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"Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."
Hell,
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"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life."
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