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I drink to make other people interesting.
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 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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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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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
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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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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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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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