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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Plautus
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A tainted society has invented psychiatry to defend itself against the investigations of certain superior intellects whose faculties of divination would be troublesome.
Antonin Artaud
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In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'
Seanbaby
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All good men and women should be on their guard to avoid guilt, and even the suspicion of it.
Plautus
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Like the stain'd web that whitens in the sun, grow pure by being purely shone upon.
Thomas Moore
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To snatch the worm from the trap.
Plautus
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Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.
Menander
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Little do you know what a gloriously uncertain thing law is.
Plautus
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I am stigmatized by a living death in which real death holds no terrors for me.
Antonin Artaud
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If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.
Menander
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An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
Aristophanes
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Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
Plautus
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That which you know, know not and that which you see, see not.
Plautus
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[Nietzsche's] definition of cruelty informs Artaud's own, declaring that all art embodies and intensifies the underlying brutalities of life to recreate the thrill of experience ... Although Artaud did not formally cite Nietzsche, [their writing] contains a familiar persuasive authority, a similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis.
Antonin Artaud
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I'm glad that Jewish kids are taught about the Holocaust and other stories in our history, but I wonder if there are ways that this information and narrative can be transmitted differently.
Jill Soloway
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We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.
Plautus
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Though an angel should write, still 'tis devils must print.
Thomas Moore
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FOOVIEW (foo' view) n. The ability of a dog to inflict guilt from any angle in the room while he watches his master eat.
Rich Hall
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There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]
Plautus
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The actor is an athlete of the heart.
Antonin Artaud
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By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
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This is what extremely grieves us, that a man who never fought Should contrive our fees to pilfer, on who for his native land Never to this day had oar, or lance, or blister in his hand.
Aristophanes
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Things which you do not hope happen more frequently than things which you do hope.
Plautus
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One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Aristophanes
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