George Jean Nathan Quotes - Page 3

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• Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.

  George Jean Nathan

  Night, Play, Theatre

  George Jean Nathan (1917). “Bottoms Up: An Application of the Slapstick to Satire”

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• Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

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  Wine, Dinner, Theater

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• I drink so the others become interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Interesting, Alcohol, Drink

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• It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

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  Success, Achievement, Cynicism

  George Jean Nathan (1929). “Monks are Monks: A Diagnostic Scherzo”, New York, Knopf

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• Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.

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  Men, Theatre, Remember

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

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• A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

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  Women, Wife, Firsts

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

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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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  Health, Catching, Knows

  George Jean Nathan (1932). “The intimate notebooks of George Jean Nathan”

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• A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.

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  Dog, Stars, Spring

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

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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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  Memories, Done, Should

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

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• Drama - what literature does at night.

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  Drama, Night, Theatre

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

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• The triumph of sugar over diabetes.

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  Sarcastic, Triumph, Sugar

  George Jean Nathan (1919). “Comedians All”

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• It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

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  Wise, Artist, Mind

  George Jean Nathan (1925). “The American Mercury”

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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.

  George Jean Nathan

  Girl, Long, Literature

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• A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Heart, Broken

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

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