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Famous quotes by Dramatists

"The death clock is ticking slowly in our breast, and each drop of blood measures its time, and our life is a lingering fever"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Your words smell of corpses"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The breath of an aristocrat is the death rattle of freedom"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Raise your eyes and count the small gang of your oppressors who are only strong through the blood they suck from you and through your arms which you lend them unwillingly"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"That is a long word: forever!"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"You women could make someone fall in love even with a lie"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The statue of Freedom has not been cast yet, the furnace is hot, we can all still burn our fingers"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The life of the wealthy is one long Sunday"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"The weapon of the Republic is terror, and virtue is its strength"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?"
Georg Buchner, Dramatist
Georg Buchner
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"Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"There is nothing wrong with sobriety, in moderation"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"The reader deserves an honest opinion. If he doesn't deserve it, give it to him anyhow"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Poetry lies its way to the truth"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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"A neighborhood is a residential area that is changing for the worse"
John Ciardi, Dramatist
John Ciardi
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