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Dramatist Inspirational Quotes (1690)

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There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
William Saroyan
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The simple fact was that if the song wasn't about me, I couldn't see how it could possibly be about anybody else, including the one I knew it was supposed to be about, and good luck to him, too.
William Saroyan
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The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it.
William Saroyan
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Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.
William Saroyan
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
William Saroyan
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I believe in anything that works.
William Saroyan
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Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius.
William Saroyan
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You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter.
William Saroyan
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Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next.
William Saroyan
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There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.
Alfred de Musset
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Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.
W. S. Gilbert
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Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
Christopher Marlowe
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If you know how a man deals with his money, how he gets it, spends it, keeps it, shares it, you know one of the most important things about him.
Henry Taylor
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Virgin me no virgins! I must have you lose that name, or you lose me.
Philip Massinger
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A beauty masked, like the sun in eclipse, gathers together more gazers than if it shined out.
William Wycherley
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A good name is seldom got by giving it oneself.
William Wycherley
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Your women of honor, as you call 'em , are only chary of their reputations, not their persons, and 'tis scandal they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley
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Poets, like friends to whom you are in debt, you hate.
William Wycherley
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Women serve but to keep a man from better company.
William Wycherley
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Necessity, mother of invention.
William Wycherley
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He's a fool that marries but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool.
William Wycherley
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Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one.
William Wycherley
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With faint praises one another damn.
William Wycherley
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I weigh the man, not his title 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
William Wycherley
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