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Playwright Inspirational Quotes (48415)

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Truth in the end shall prevail.
Ulpian Fulwell
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You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Sleep, thou patron of mankind, Great physician of the mind Who does nor pain nor sorrow know, Sweetest balm of every woe.
Sophocles
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I read I travel I become
Derek Walcott
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
Joseph Addison
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I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.
Anton Chekhov
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One's own escape from troubles makes one glad but bringing friends to trouble is hard grief.
Sophocles
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Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours.
Kurt Vonnegut
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
L. Frank Baum
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Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.
Karl Kraus
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Sexual enlightenment is that hardhearted process which for hygienic reasons forbids young people to satisfy their curiosity themselves.
Karl Kraus
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As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
George Sand
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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!
Carson McCullers
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Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.
Marilyn vos Savant
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
Seneca the Younger
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Why are women so fond of raking up the past? They're as bad as tailors, who invariably remember what you owe them for a suit long after you've ceased to wear it.
Hector Hugh Munro
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Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.
Karl Kraus
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The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair
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I don't know whether anyone will care to examine my heart, but if they do, they will find two words there- 'social justice.' For that is what I have believed in and fought for.
Upton Sinclair
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Turn over the pages of history and read the damning record of the church's opposition to every advance in every field of science. . . .
Upton Sinclair
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All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.
Upton Sinclair
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One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Upton Sinclair
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