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• Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

  George Jean Nathan

  Wise, Men, Idiot

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• To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Sex, Imagination

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Want, Drink

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Air, Flying, Flags

  George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken (1929). “The American Mercury”

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• All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.

  George Jean Nathan

  New York, Sky, Crowds

  George Jean Nathan (1927). “The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind”

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• Art is the sex of the imagination.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Sex, Imagination

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.7, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drama, Adventure, Soul

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.3, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.

  George Jean Nathan

  Skins, Hollywood, Dollars

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Women, Humor, Cosmetics

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Thinking, Salt

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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• There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

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  Powerful, Looks, Fetch

  George Jean Nathan (1971). “Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff”, p.221, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Running, Fall

  George Jean Nathan (1952). “The world of George Jean Nathan”

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Art, Darkness, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.4, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Men, Doe, Looks

  George Jean Nathan (1972). “The Critic and the Drama”, p.55, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

  George Jean Nathan

  Writing, Play, Age

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• A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

  George Jean Nathan

  Success, Work, Stress

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

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  Believe, Doe, Prejudice

  George Jean Nathan (1919). “Comedians All”

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• Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

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  Fighting, Successful, Criticism

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.

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  Flower, Theatre, Doe

  George Jean Nathan (1921). “The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls”

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• The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Loyal And Faithful

  1921 The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls,'Woman'.

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• The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.

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  Men, Often Is, Yoke

  George Jean Nathan (1941). “The bachelor life”

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• Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Jobs

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.

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  Men, Intuition, Instinct

  "The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary".

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• The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

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  Funny, Real, Humor

  American Mercury, Sept. 1929

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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

  Men, Comfort, May

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