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Quotes by Playwright
"Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart."
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life."
"I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you."
"I would love to spend all my time writing to you; I'd love to share with you all that goes through my mind, all that weighs on my heart, all that gives air to my soul; phantoms of art, dreams that would be so beautiful if they could come true."
"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."
"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"
"Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out."
"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
"When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him."
"Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow."
"Whoever has the luck to be born a character can laugh even at death. Because a character will never die! A man will die, a writer, the instrument of creation: but what he has created will never die!"
"You too must not count too much on your reality as you feel it today, since like yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow."
"The history of mankind is the history of ideas."
"When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself."
"A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place."
"Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time."
"The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture."
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"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments."
"There are still a lot of cases in the world where you order something and then you see 'Delivery will be in 8-12 weeks.' This is because of the faxes and forms that still exist."
"Everything is relative. Is the Internet fast? Not for most people. Is it always on? Yes, for cable modem and DSL users but that represents a tiny percentage of users."
"Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture."
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."
"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
"There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success."
"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."
"It is widely held that too much wine will dull a man's desire. Indeed it will in a dull man."
"In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea."
"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."
"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."
"Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage."
"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."
"It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones."
"I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body."
"The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste."
"It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly."
"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."
"There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband."
"One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise."
"Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed."
"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
"Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have."
"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."
"No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year."
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