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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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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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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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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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Art is the sex of the imagination.
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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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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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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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