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Art is the sex of the imagination.

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
Legislature
Sex
Imagination
Art

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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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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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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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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
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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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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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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
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I drink so the others become interesting.
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
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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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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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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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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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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
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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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Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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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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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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I drink to make other people interesting.
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