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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.
A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.
Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs.
All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
Eugene O'Neil created an American theater, and Tennessee Williams taught it how to sing.
Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.
American straightforwardness is almost as disarming as Americans invariably think it is.
Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.
If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.
Finished things cease to be a shelter for the spirit; but work in progress is a delight.
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit.
If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
There is nothing wherein their womanliness is more honestly garnished than with silence.
It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The best thing that can happen is for the theme to be nice and clear from the beginning.
I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.
In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
There are three primal urges in human beings: food, sex, and rewriting some else's play.
Ignorant men do not know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.
Now let the weeping cease; Let no one mourn again. These things are in the hands of God.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
Desire looks clear from the eyes of a lovely bride: power as strong as the founded world
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.
What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them.
Poetry is not an assertion of truth, but the making of that truth more fully real to us.
There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.
Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.
Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.
It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
The will ... is the driving force of the mind. If it's injured, the mind falls to pieces.