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Edward Albee: What people really...

Edward Albee: What people really...

What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.

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Alan Bennett: Definition of a...

Alan Bennett: Definition of a...

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they...

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Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

Alan Jay Lerner: All I want...

All I want is a room somewhere,
Far away from the cold night air;
With one enormous chair . . .
Oh, wouldn't...

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Jean Giraudoux: One of the...

Jean Giraudoux: One of the...

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

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Oscar Wilde: A man cannot...

Oscar Wilde: A man cannot...

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Source: Lord Henry, in...

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Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Louise A Bogan: Women have no...

Women have no wilderness in them
They are provident instead
Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts
To...

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John Vanbrugh: Thinking is to...

John Vanbrugh: Thinking is to...

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.

Source: The Relapse,...

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John Vanbrugh: Good manners and...

John Vanbrugh: Good manners and...

Good manners and soft words have brought many a difficult thing to pass.

Source: In...

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Brendan Behan: It's not that...

Brendan Behan: It's not that...

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and...

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John Fletcher: I find the...

John Fletcher: I find the...

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Source: Love's Cure, Act iii. Sc....

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Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Alexis Carrel: Science has to...

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not...

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Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Alexis Carrel: Those who desire...

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride . . . the omnipotence...

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Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

Isabelle Eberhardt: For those who...

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of...

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Lewis Mumford: The artist does...

Lewis Mumford: The artist does...

The artist does not illustrate science. He frequently, however, responds to the same interests that a scientist...

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Leon Battista Alberti: Beauty - the...

Leon Battista Alberti: Beauty - the...

Beauty - the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing...

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Bernard Berenson: Genius is the...

Bernard Berenson: Genius is the...

Genius is the capacity for productive reaction against one's training.

Source: In...

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Marcel Duchamp: The individual, man...

Marcel Duchamp: The individual, man...

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed...

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Jacques Lipchitz: All my life...

Jacques Lipchitz: All my life...

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer....

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Marc Chagall: I adore the...

Marc Chagall: I adore the...

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to...

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Salvador Dali: I do not...

Salvador Dali: I do not...

I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his...

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