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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
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The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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Art is the sex of the imagination.
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
George Jean Nathan
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
George Jean Nathan
Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
George Jean Nathan
Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
George Jean Nathan
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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