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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
I think probably I've been influenced by Chekhov and Walt Disney, if you see what I mean.
My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.
The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
Art is a manifestation of emotion, and emotion speaks a language that all may understand.
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
The humour of Dostoievsky is the humour of a barloafer who ties a kettle to a dog's tail.
A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
When people say to me, 'You're so prolific!' it's, like, no, I'm just hopeless with money.
The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.
I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.
Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.
Truth is man's proper good, and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use.
I just want the actors to put their faith in the language. Just let the words do the work.
Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
It was impossible to believe that someone did not want to be saved from their incoherence.
What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.
To teach successfully we must tell all we know, but only what is adaptable to the student.
The law, as an institution, avoids justice, subverts it, just as often as it sees it done.
Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill.
O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.
Theatre is an exclusive place that tends to be dominated by white men, or dying white men.
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