Ruth Draper Quotes

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Accepting and feeling sympathy and love is not so healing as giving it.

Ruth Draper

The trouble with success is — it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!

Ruth Draper

He said I was the most sensitive person he'd ever seen — that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive. Of course, I was examined, and so was the éclair, and they found that the éclair contains everything my system lacks. So I take three a day and I feel like a new woman!

Ruth Draper

As long as we go on loving and working life is worth while.

Ruth Draper

Life is too wonderful,
too full, too short
and strength too limited
to contain its wonder.

Ruth Draper

Of course he [Dante] was a genius, wasn't he – like Shakespeare? … He and Dante seem to have known everything … known what would always be true … Wonderful, I imagine that we're going to find that this is full of quotations.

Ruth Draper

Ruth Draper

Ruth Draper

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Born: December 2, 1884

Died: December 30, 1956 (aged 72)

Bio: Ruth Draper was an American actress, dramatist and noted diseuse who specialized in character-driven monologues and monodrama. Her best-known pieces include The Italian Lesson, Three Women and Mr. Clifford, Doctors and Diets, and A Church in Italy.

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