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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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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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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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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
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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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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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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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I drink to make other people interesting.
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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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Drama - what literature does at night.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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