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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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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 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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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 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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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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Drama - what literature does at night.
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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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Art is the sex of the imagination.
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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 optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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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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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 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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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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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
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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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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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