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1667 Playwright Quotes

No matter how bad things get, you've got to go on living, even if it kills you.

No matter Bad things Living Kills you
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You see how it is, my dear friends. There's no pleasing everyone. It's hopeless to even try, and the more you play the peacemaker, the less peaceful things become.

Friends Pleasing Hopeless Peaceful
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The rich swell up with pride, the poor from hunger.

Rich Pride Poor Hunger
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A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Pleasure Enjoy Companion Argument
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When you die, others who think they know you, will concoct things about you... Better pick up a pen and write it yourself, for you know yourself best.

Die Think Write Yourself
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If somebody tells you that you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you so, buy yourself a saddle.

Somebody Ears People Saddle
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What eyes can tell you in a minute, a mouth will never say in a day.

Eyes Tell Mouth Day
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This is an ugly and mean world, and only to spite it we mustn't weep. If you want to know, this is the constant source of my good spirit, of my humor. Not to cry, out of spite, only to laugh out of spite, only to laugh.

World Weep Humor Laugh
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There is nothing in the world, I tell you, so maddening as a person who doesn't answer when you abuse him. You shout and you scold, you are ready to burst a gut, and he stands there and smiles....

World Person Abuse Smiles
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Is impossible Discourage Real writers
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Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Every man A king Has someone Look down
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It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.
You earn But how Spend it That fixes
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People read fiction for emotion-not information.

People read Fiction Emotion Not information
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I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

I think An error Believe Any need
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It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Major tragedies More discomforting Hearty affection Old friends
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You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

So earnest About morality I hate Essentially immoral
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There are so many people in the world who are eager to do for you things that you do not wish done, provided only that you will do for them things that you don't wish to do.

Many people Are eager Things Wish one
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The one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love.

One thing More disconcerting Than intelligent Demanding love
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A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

A man Takes A drink Takes another
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Love is the one thing that can really sure-enough lighten all of life's dark clouds.

Love One thing Can really Lighten all
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The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Important part Living The pondering Upon it
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I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity.

Not understand Ministers presume Deliver sermons Appointed hours
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Nothing whets the intelligence more than a passionate suspicion, nothing develops all the faculties of an immature mind more than a trail running away into the dark.

Nothing whets The intelligence Passionate suspicion Develops
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Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

The person Experienced light Darkness Peace
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No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

No guilt Is forgotten The conscience Still knows
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In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd,It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.

In chess Intellectual game Where randomness Is excluded
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Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

Freedom Not possible Without authority Into chaos
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Art can bring us consolation as individuals,” he said, “but it is powerless against reality.

Art Bring us Consolation Individuals
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Once more my pity had been stronger than my will.

My pity Been stronger My will
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Once a man has found himself there is nothing in this world that he can lose. And once he has understood the humanity in himself, he will understand all human beings.

A man Found himself Is nothing This world
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We are happy when people/things conform and unhappy when they don't. People and events don't disappoint us, our models of reality do. It is my model of reality that determines my happiness or disappointments.

Are happy Things conform Unhappy People
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Maybe everything’s not so hard, maybe life is so much easier than I thought, you just need courage, you just need to have a sense of yourself, then you’ll discover your hidden resources.

Maybe everything So hard Life Much easier
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It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one’s own existence.

Is never One realize Means something To others
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Nothing on earth puts more pressure on the human mind than nothing.

Nothing On earth More pressure Human mind
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There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

More vindictive More underhanded Little world Big one
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It remains an irrefutable law of history that contemporaries are denied a recognition of the early beginnings of the great movements which determine their times.

Irrefutable law History That contemporaries A recognition
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Soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Soul Mysteriously elastic Single event Big enough
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I realized that there was no point in denying oneself a pleasure because it was denied another, in refusing to allow oneself to be happy because someone else was unhappy.

I realized No point Denying oneself A pleasure
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Exalt yourself by devoting yourself to others, enrich yourself by making everyone’s destiny your own, by enduring and understanding every facet of human suffering through your pity.

Exalt yourself By devoting To others Enrich yourself
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Even if I had gone further than in all honesty I should have done, my lies, those lies born of pity, had made her happy; and to make a person happy could never be a crime.

Gone further All honesty Have done My lies
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Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.

Music Charms Soothe Bend
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Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand

Women Tricks Admire Understand
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Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.

Courtship Marriage Prologue Play
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There is in true beauty, as in courage, somewhat which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.

Beauty Courage Souls Admire
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Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned

Heaven Rage Love Hatred
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Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward
Blessings Virtuous Deeds Reward
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He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views

He Confidence Integrity Views
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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing

Uncertainty Joys Life Security
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Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.

Never Angry Stay up Fight
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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

Thing Fear Hurt Dream
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