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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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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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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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Art is the sex of the imagination.
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The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
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I drink so the others become interesting.
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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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 life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
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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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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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