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Quotes by Dramatist
"Come, for my part I will have only those glorious, manly pleasures of being very drunk, and very slovenly."
"Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures."
"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
"Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before."
Love,
"I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for."
"Poets, like whores, are only hated by each other."
"Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business."
"A mistress should be like a little country retreat near the town, not to dwell in constantly, but only for a night and away."
"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question."
"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
"Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense."
"The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you."
"You can be young without money but you can't be old without it."
"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
"Success and failure are equally disastrous."
"Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it... Success is shy - it won't come out while you're watching."
"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person."
Hell,
"A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with."
"All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent."
"Death is one moment, and life is so many of them."
"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
"Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life."
"There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."
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