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I drink so the others become interesting.

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
Journalist
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
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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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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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Art is the sex of the imagination.
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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 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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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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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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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
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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 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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