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Quotes by Playwright
"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 begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored."
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"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
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"The mere dates of my existence do not interest me, except in one connection. When the Great War started I was too old to be acceptable as a volunteer; when conscription followed I was too old to be conscripted."
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"Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?"
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"You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true."
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"Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture."
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"As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature."
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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
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"My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough."
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"We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbors. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself."
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"I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday."
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"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience."
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"It's really interesting that whenever you do something that is so out of character, like having an emotional outburst, that you don't get in trouble."
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"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
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"I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act."
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"Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety."
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"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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"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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"Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today."
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"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."
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"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
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"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."
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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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"That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together."
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"In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class."
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"We thrust our fingers into our ears to stop its moan; but it was no good; the cry cut like a drill into our heads, dragging minutes into hours, hours into years. We withered and grew old between those cries."
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"Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence."
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"There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
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"He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn."
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"Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men."
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"The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one."
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"I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick."
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"I know that you're selfish, selfish beyond words, and I know that you haven't the nerve of a rabbit, I know you're a liar and a humbug, I know that you're utterly contemptible. And the tragic part is'--her face was on a sudden distraught with pain--'the tragic part is that notwithstanding I love you with all my heart."
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"Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely."
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"I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity."
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"The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want."
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"I have the fault of being a little more sincere than is proper."
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