Eugene O'Neill Quotes - Page 3

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• Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

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  Life, Father, Dark

  Strange Interlude pt. 2, act 9 (1928)

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• We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

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  Rubbish, Forget, Drink

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• The sea hates a coward.

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  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  'Mourning becomes Electra' (1931) pt. 2, act 4

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• What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

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  Home, Use, Coming Home

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.80, Infobase Publishing

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• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

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  Today, Becoming, Sincerity

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth.

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  Men, Events, Earth

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones.

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  Love, Writing, Play

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• I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know it till one day you find yourself in hell.

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  Hate, Doctors, Soul

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• Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

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  Happiness, Contentment, Joyful

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1920-1931”, New York, N.Y. : Literary Classics of the United States : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press

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• Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

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  Funny, Dog, Stupid

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• Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

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  Dog, Two, Feet

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• To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

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  Dream, Truth, Lying

  Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”

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• When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

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  Fun, Crazy, Kids

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The First Man”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know. I wish it was always that way. It's getting dark already. It will soon be night, thank goodness.

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  Dark, Night, Fog

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

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  Funny, Dog, Training

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• Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

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  Eye, Folks

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• Curiosity killed the cat.

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  Cat, Temptation, Curiosity

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• Irish as a Paddy's pig.

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  Pigs, Paddy

  "The Straw". Book by Eugene O'Neill, Act 1, Scene 2, 1919.

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