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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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There is nothing like an insane asylum for gently incubating death.
Antonin Artaud
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I know that we women are all justly accounted praters they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman. [Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus, Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.]
Plautus
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Fortitude is a great help in distress.
Plautus
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The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, its factories, its law-courts and its universities. The frozen Mind cracks between the mineral staves which close upon it.
Antonin Artaud
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There is a real comfort with the position of the victim, which can either result in true empathy or deep paranoia.
Jill Soloway
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He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Menander
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These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!
Aristophanes
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Women say they want a man who knows what a woman's worth. That's a pimp.
Rich Hall
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He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.
Plautus
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It is the compelling power of great thoughts and ideas to engender phrases of equal size.
Aristophanes
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Wine is a cunning wrestler.
Plautus
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Fortune moulds and circumscribes human affairs as she pleases. [Lat., Fortuna humana fingit artatque ut lubet.]
Plautus
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I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote other to support my particular taste.
Jill Soloway
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Not once more will/I be found with beings/who swallowed the rail of life//And one day I found myself with beings/who swallowed the nail of life/-as soon as I lost my matrix mamma,//and the being twisted under him,/and god poured me back to her/(the motherfucker).
Antonin Artaud
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I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.
Antonin Artaud
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So much of the United State's political relationship with Israel is based on culture. Israel is the only Westernized culture in the region and the Middle Eastern countries bordering Israel are Arab, which is a totally different society. Even though Israel doesn't exactly feel like the United States, by comparison to its neighbors it's very Western.
Jill Soloway
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Are you not accustomed to look at home, when you abuse others?
Plautus
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Without feathers it isn't easy to fly: my wings have got no feathers. [Lat., Sine pennis volare hau facilest: meae alae pennas non habent.] [Alt., Flying without feathers is not easy my wings have no feathers.]
Plautus
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When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Aristophanes
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I count him lost, who is lost to shame.
Plautus
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Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.
Plautus
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I abandon myself to the fever of dreams, in search for new laws.
Antonin Artaud
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The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.
Antonin Artaud
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It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
Plautus
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