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Jean Anouilh
Oh, love is...
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it some day, but it has one arch-enemy - and that is...
Every man thinks...
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know He is.
Source: The...
The object of...
The object of art is to give life a shape.
Source: The Rehearsal.
-- Jean...
Tragedy is clean,...
Tragedy is clean, it is restful, it is flawless.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
When you are...
When you are forty, half of you belongs to the past . . . And when you are seventy, nearly all of...
There will always...
There will always be a lost dog somewhere that will keep me from being happy.
With God, what...
With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the...
Inspiration is a...
Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.
Nothing is irreparable...
Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Source: Warwick, in The Lark, pt. 1.
-- Jean...
One cannot weep...
One cannot weep for the entire world, it is beyond human strength. One must choose.
Life is a...
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books -- but it is terrible when one has to live...
Talent is like...
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write. Inspiration? -- a hoax fabricated by poets for their...
Life is very...
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
Source:...
To say yes,...
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to...
Propaganda is a...
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other...
Beauty is one...
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
Source: Thomas ?...
Every man thinks...
Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.
Source:...
What you get...
What you get free costs too much.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed....
Talent is like...
Talent is like a faucet; while it is open, you have to write.
Source: The New York...
Until the day...
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
Source: Beckett,...