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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
If happiness in self-content is placed, The wise are wretched, and fools only blessed.
A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.
Really, feminism is just about equality, and that's all. It's just saying equal rights.
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
To break through language in order to touch life is to create or re-create the theater.
Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
Work a lifetime to pay off a house You finally own it and there's nobody to live in it.
I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.
As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.
One of the hardest and truest things a grown-up learns is that sometimes it's not okay.
I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.
All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
Danger lurks when people are dissociated and detached from their own story or feelings.
You can lose a friend in springtime easier than any other season if you're too curious.
It's so easy that when you begin you can't stop. You just go on and on doing it always.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.
No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
Certain events make people come out of their little boxes and become part of the whole.
At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.
At the end of the day, nothing is achievable if you don't have the right collaborators.
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.
You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy; And 'tis the crown of justice, and the glory
Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.
What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man's feet in the moonlight?
The improvisation had to be in public, because you only get value playing to strangers.
You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
Just because it’s a unique perspective doesn’t mean it can’t offer something universal.
I think that human beings were incredibly resilient; otherwise, we wouldn't keep going.
I'd love to do something like 'A Canterbury Tale,' because I love the English language.
If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.