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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
Critic
Film Critic
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Fort Wayne
Indiana
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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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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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
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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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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
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