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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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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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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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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 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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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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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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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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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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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
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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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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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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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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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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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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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