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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.
Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
This is always history's greatest failure, its inability to believe what it sees, what, almost always, someone sees.
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
In my family history, there are generations of women who were abandoned by men. It's one of the themes of my family.
I think folks who are resistant to engaging in art become less so once they encounter art that really reflects them.
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.
You never see the old austerity That was the essence of civility; Young people hereabouts, unbridled, now Just want.
And knowing money is a root of evil, in Christian charity, he'd take away whatever things may hinder your salvation.
Our politicians screw up all the time, as we see. But with so many things, we're no longer the world leader in that.
You shall see them on a beautiful quarto page where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
Whena scandalousstory isbelieved againstone, thereis certainly no comfort like the conscience of having deserved it.
People talk about alienation in the city. Diners are a place where you feel comfortable, an extension of your house.
Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
I see, in women friends, a really dangerous phenomenon where it seems they reach a certain age and become invisible.
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self.
Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.
Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
Rewriting isn't just about dialogue; it's the order of the scenes, how you finish a scene, how you get into a scene.
The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
Make him laugh and he will think you a trivial fellow, but bore him in the right way and your reputation is assured.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
I've found that the only way to make theatre that gets the audience thinking is when I feel uncomfortable making it.
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you.
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
If the nature of human experience changes with the color of a man's skin, then the racists have been right all along.
I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.
If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.
Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.
Well, when I was six years old I decided, not that I was going to be, but with my usual modesty, that I was a writer.
When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.
I think all my work's been about how do women get back into our bodies; how do men get back. We're all disassociated.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
Commercial theater, in its agenda to appeal to everybody, is often at the expense of the unique vision of the artist.