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People are starved for a way of life - they're hunting for a way to be or to act toward the world.
The Greeks could be a crushing bore. I recommend dressing everyone in combat fatigues or S&M gear.
Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.
Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.
There's no better credit card in the world than driving up at a bank door in a Cadillac limousine.
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.
Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at nine o'clock sharp.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
Fate is a manifestation of natural causes. That's it. It's not a conscious entity. It has no plan.
A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.
It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.
A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.
By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.
How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel.
Every little girl knows about love. It is only her capacity to suffer because of it that increases.
Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
I think we all have a primal desire to know as much as we can to find out about where we come from.
I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.
It’s a release to know that in spite of everything a premeditated act of courage is still possible.
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
The schoolteacher is certainly underpaid as a childminder, but ludicrously overpaid as an educator.
I think theatre at its best looks into the dark corners; clearly, my dark corners are full of doom.
There is always something left to love. And if you haven't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.
The why of why we are here is an intrigue for adolescents; the how is what must command the living.
I knew that there was a great deal of depth and life that was sitting just beyond my mother's gaze.
Physical suffering apart, not a single sorrow exists that can touch us except through our thoughts.
Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.
What I adore is supreme professionalism. I’m bored by writers who can write only when it’s raining.
As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best. [Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
Animal language is a contagious expression of mood effecting communication between social partners.