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Folks who make such a fuss about their rights turn them into wrongs sometimes. -- (from Behind the White Brick)
Love lasts about seven years. That's how long it takes for the cells of the body to totally replace themselves.
My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?
No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.
I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
Referees are the law. They have a whistle. They blow it. And that whistle is the articulation of God's justice.
Cricket, the whole thing, playing, watching, being part of the Gaieties, has been a central feature of my life.
It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.
Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.
I grew up going to the movies, not watching them on television, so I'm still a bit resistant to TV as a medium.
I love my people's history. I feel a huge responsibility to tell the stories of my past and my ancestors' past.
When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.
Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.
A woman finds it much easier to do ill than well. [Lat., Mulieri nimio male facere melius est onus, quam bene.]
Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. [Lat., Festo die si quid prodegeris, Profesto egere liceat nisi peperceris.]
Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Directing was easy for me because I was a writer director and did all my directing when I wrote the screenplay.
The more you stand in the limelight, the more scarred you will become and the more you will love the limelight.
If I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!
I love the idea of writing these huge, bombastic characters; I'll stay in the superhero world as long as I can.
Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.
The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
When books and plays are made into movies, they frequently want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks.
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well
Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
As a writer, you're not even at the party when you work in film. At best, you're the one laying out the canapes.
I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.
This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.