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125 Dramatist Quotes

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Crime Not Nut Consist
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Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Test Courage Die Live
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A usurper always distrusts the whole world.
Usurper Distrust World
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Deep vengeance is the daughter of deep silence.

Deep Daughter Deep Silence
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Heaven takes care that no man secures happiness by crime.

Heaven Care Man Secures
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First thoughts are not always the best.
First Thought Best
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Liars are always most disposed to swear.

Liars Disposed Swear
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Where there are laws, he who has not broken them need not tremble.

Laws Broken Tremble
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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man World Search Needs
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Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.

Art must Parochial Cosmopolitan
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The difficulty in life is the choice.

Difficulty In life Choice
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Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.

Taking something Man Worse Plagiarism
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Reality Destroy Dream
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The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.
Wrong way Seems Reasonable
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Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Everybody Sets out Do something Does
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A man of letters never objects to a slum. He sharpens his pen there.

A man Letters Objects Sharpens
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An idea is so impersonal; it is yours today and the whole world's tomorrow.

An idea Impersonal Today Tomorrow
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To what better purpose can a man's energy be devoted, and his talents, than the resuscitation of his country's language?

Better purpose Devoted Talents Resuscitation
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Men never get free from morality, only women.
Man never Free Morality
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The right I claim is that of every human being to speak what he believes to be the truth to whomever he may meet on his way.

Right Claim Human being Speak
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An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

Idea Running Books Gain qualities
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Every race gets the religion it deserves, and only as policemen, pugilists, and priests have they succeeded, here and there a successful lawyer, but nothing more serious.

Every race Religion Policemen Priests
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The truth is that I am in love with Dublin. I think it is the most beautiful town that I have ever seen, mountains at the back and the sea in front, and long roads winding through decaying suburbs and beautiful woods.

The truth Love Beautiful Mountains
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I do not believe in a universal religion any more than I believe in a universal language. My feeling is that people have to make their own religion as they have to make their arts and their parishes, and that they must find their own salvation; the salvation mongers are of not much avail.

Believe Universal religion Language Feeling
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You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

You will Aged man Career Brilliant
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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Cynicism Saying Truth Unpleasant
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I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashion.

Cannot Conscience Cut Fashion
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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Baby Believes Carriage Chamber
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People change and forget to tell each other.
Change Each Forget Other
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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

Against Courage Final Hell
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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Does Made Often Time
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What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

Books I Tried Slippery Tell
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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

Beginning Believe Did End
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Belief is a moral act for which the believer is to be held responsible.

Act Belief Believer Held
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

Come Ever First Good
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I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Like People Ready Refuse
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My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Angry Father Him Like
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It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.

Brightest Cannot Famous Famous People
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It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Been Even Good Lives
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We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

About America Considered Dwell
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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

Agree Defend Injustice People
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
End Habits Hopes Out
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God forgives those who invent what they need.

Forgives God Invent Need
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You lose your manners when you are poor.
Lose Manners Poor You
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Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.

Everything Makes Man Stand
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Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

Each Lonelier Lonely Make
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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Act Best Confidence How
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