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We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.
Alfred Jarry
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You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.
Sacha Guitry
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Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
Sholem Aleichem
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Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.
George Bernard Shaw
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You're a grand old flag;
You're a high-flying flag.
And forever in peace may you wave.
George M. Cohan
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Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels, sees, and creates, as himself, instead of seeing and creating in the way the critic would have done.
Henrik Ibsen
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A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.
Anton Chekhov
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What makes equality such a difficult business is that we only want it with our superiors.
Henry Becque
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A place in thy memory, dearest,
Is all that I claim;
To pause and look back when thou hearest
The sound of my name.
Gerald Griffin
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It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.
Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany
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"Shells with lip, or tooth, or bleeding gum,
Tell-tale shells, and shells that whisper 'Come',
Shells that stammer, blush, and yet are dumb – "
"O let me hear!"
Thomas Sturge Moore
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We see God and the devil making fools of each other, and we nurture in ourselves the absolutely unshakable conviction that both of them are drunk.
Frank Wedekind
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If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Henry Arthur Jones
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Alas, I was wrong when I spoke those word: you are so skilled that you have been able to take even my fear away.
Pedro Muñoz Seca
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Humanity has no force more powerful and victorious than science.
Maxim Gorky
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The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.
Louise Closser Hale
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Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.
Italo Svevo
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You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded
Minnie Maddern Fiske
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I know that back in the twenties everyone who saw it judged John Barrymore's Hamlet to be unforgettable. Great though it was, I found his Richard III even more impressive. Barrymore's sinister, half-mad hunchback became incandescent as he gleefully anticipated his conquest of the Lady Anne. The genius of the actor contrived a slight but inspired alteration of Shakespeare's: 'Was ever woman in this humour wooed? Was ever woman in this humour won?' The change to 'Never was woman in this manner wooed; never was woman in this manner won' heightened the deviltry in Richard's gloating.
Marc Connelly
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Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Arnold Daly
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Marquis:
Put a duck on a lake in the midst of some swans, and you'll see he'll miss his pond and eventually return to it.
Montrichard:
Longing to be back in the mud!
Émile Augier
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Artistic truth is for me literally the highest truth: art may seize the essence of persons and movements no less truly, and certainly far more vitally, than a scientific generalization unifies a chaos of phenomena. Time and Space are only the conditions through which spiritual facts struggle. Hence I have here and there permitted myself liberties with these categories.
Israel Zangwill
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Now dig my grave
Beneath the bay willows' boughs
And with blackness cover it over again,
There for evermore
Go from my domain:
I wish to slumber in peace.
Aleksis Kivi
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That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.
Alfred Sutro
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Summertime
And the livin' is easy,
Fish are jumpin',
And the cotton is high.
Oh, your daddy's rich,
And your ma is good lookin';
So hush, little baby,
Don' yo' cry.
DuBose Heyward
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