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Comedy Writer Inspirational Quotes (429)

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The true theater, because it moves and makes use of living instruments, continues to stir up shadows where life has never ceased to grope its way.
Antonin Artaud
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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Aristophanes
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Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes.
Rich Hall
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How many times do we lose an occasion for soul work by leaping ahead to final solutions without pausing to savor the undertones? We are a radically bottom-line society, eager to act and to end tension, and thus we lose opportunities to know ourselves for our motives and our secrets.
Thomas Moore
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
Alcaeus
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Be sure to lie to your kids about the benevolent, all-seeing Santa Claus. It will prepare them for an adulthood of believing in God.
Scott Dikkers
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He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
Plautus
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Nowadays those are rewarded who make right appear wrong.
Terence
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You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests hence the state limps along.
Aristophanes
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Before our eyes is fought a battle of symbols... for there can be theatre only from the moment when the impossible really begins and when the poetry that occurs on the stage sustains and superheats the realized symbols.
Antonin Artaud
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The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.
Rich Hall
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If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again.
Antonin Artaud
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As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.
Plautus
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Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!
Plautus
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You are quite unnecessary, young man!
Antonin Artaud
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The stronger always succeeds.
Plautus
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It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander
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To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.
Plautus
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Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.
Aristophanes
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Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream.
Aristophanes
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You drown him by your talk.
Plautus
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I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Plautus
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It does not matter a feather whether a man be supported by patron or client, if he himself wants courage. [Lat., Animus tamen omnia vincit. Ille etiam vires corpus habere facit.]
Plautus
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Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.
Plautus
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