"When any creativity becomes useful, it is sucked into the vortex of commercialism, and when a thing becomes commercial, it becomes the enemy of man."
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"Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence."
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"A political policy is equated with moral right, and opposition to it with diabolical malevolence."
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"Glamour, that trans-human aura or power to attract imitation, is a kind of vessel into which dreams are poured, and some vessels are simply worthier than others... A beautiful woman can turn heads but real glamour has a deeper pull... Glamour is the power to rearrange people's emotions, which, in effect, is the power to control one's environment."
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"Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer."
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"Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away. But if you can't walk away? I guess that's when it's tough."
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"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him."
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"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!"
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"The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships."
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"The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks."
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"If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that."
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"I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone."
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"In America, any man who is not a reactionary in his views is open to the charge of alliance with the Red hell."
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"Just remember, kid, you can quicker get back a million dollars that was stole than a word that you gave away."
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"He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."
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"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."
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"A genuine invention in the realm of ideas must first emerge as an abstruse and even partial concept? At first blusha new idea appearstobe verycloseto insanity because to be new it must reverse important basic beliefs and assumptions which, in turn, have been institutionalized and are administered by one or another kind of priesthood with a vested interest in an old idea."
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"Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow."
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"Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way."
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"I think it's a mistake to ever look for hope outside of one's self."
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