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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
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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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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There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
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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 Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
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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 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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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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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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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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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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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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I drink to make other people interesting.
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