"A perpetually new and lively world, but a dangerous one, full of tragedy and injustice."
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"Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body."
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"Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once."
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"What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?"
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"No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life."
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"No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year."
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"The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright."
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"Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins."
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"The principal fact of life is the free mind."
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"What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint."
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"An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes."
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"Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress"
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"Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations."
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"I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain."
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"Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it."
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"It was as dark as the inside of a cabinet minister."
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"People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts."
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"I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings."
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"Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders."
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"Throughout the play everything possible was done to show the virtue, innocence and helplessness of the poor, and the abandoned cruelty, the heartless self-indulgence of the rich."
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