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• A good friend will always stab you in the front.

  Oscar Wilde

  Best Friend, Friendship, Wisdom

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Athlete, Knowledge

  The Admirable Crichton (performed 1902, pubd. 1914) act 1

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• In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair...the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Life, Hate, Believe

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Birthday, Family

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• Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

  August Strindberg

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Being Yourself, Love Yourself, Taken

  Letter to Alfred Douglas, Jan. - Mar. 1897

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  Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.1250, Faber & Faber

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Graduation, Honesty

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Love, Relationship, Women

  W. Somerset Maugham (2006). “The Moon and Sixpence”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• I ended up becoming a playwright because you can be grammatically incorrect: people speaking in bad poetry or people attempting to speak well and sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. The whole imperfection of it suddenly felt freeing to me.

  Annie Baker

  People, Imperfection, Succeed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If the playwright knew every little thing about his play, why bother? There must be discovery all the time, otherwise why bother to do it?

  Phylicia Rashad

  Discovery, Play, Littles

  "Phylicia Rashad: A Director's Life". Interview with Sergio Mims, www.ebony.com. June 27, 2012.

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• I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.'

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Book, Feminist, Pages

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• One of the things he liked about playwriting as to any other kind of writing is that a playwright is a w-r-i-g-h-t, not a w-r-i-t-e; in other words, that a playwright is more of a craftsman than an artist of the big novel.

  Simon McBurney

  Writing, Artist, Theatre

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• We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage.

  C. S. Lewis

  Stage, Producers, Audience

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  John Lithgow

  Running, Long, Tough Times

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  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Life, Confidence

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

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• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.50, Prestwick House Inc

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• It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Change, Years, Editors

  Robert Anton Wilson (2012). “The Illuminati Papers”, p.111, Ronin Publishing

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• I thought I wanted to be a playwright because I was interested in stories and telling stories.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Stories, Telling Stories, Wanted

  "Five Oscars as a Producer, Director and Screenwriter". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. June 17, 1994.

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• David Mamet we all know is a great screenplay writer and playwright and a great director. If you like him, you like him. If you hate him, you really hate him. He's someone who's into controversy, you know what I mean? That's David Mamet.

  Tom Hardy

  Hate, Mean, Directors

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• Some playwrights are obvious influences on younger writers. Arthur Miller (realistic, politically engaged dramas) and Christopher Durang (satirical dark comedies) are examples. But August stands apart, ... He has his special way of seeing things. I remember he and I were at one of those fancy benefits the Rep has. The gay men's chorus was singing, and I was very proud to have brought them into a Rep event. And August says, 'You know, I don't see any black people up there.' That was his focus the lives of black people.

  Daniel J. Sullivan

  Drama, Gay, Dark

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