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"A kiss is a rosy dot over the 'i' of loving"
Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright
"IBM has taken a leadership role in this area and is prepared to be a technology partner with companies around the world to take advantage of these new developments"
John Patrick, Playwright
"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable"
John Patrick, Playwright
"Don't live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable"
Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright
"The real reason for comedy is to hide the pain"
Wendy Wasserstein, Playwright
"I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone"
Cyrano de Bergerac, Playwright
"The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read"
Francoise Sagan, Playwright
"Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal"
Francoise Sagan, Playwright
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table"
Jean Kerr, Playwright
"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that's the important half, for without discipline you wouldn't know what to do with luck"
Carl Zuckmayer, Playwright
"One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience"
Richard Foreman, Playwright
"Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war"
Ernst Toller, Playwright
"I feel like I've never had a home, you know? I feel related to the country, to this country, and yet I don't know exactly where I fit in... There's always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself"
Sam Shepard, Playwright
"I know My God commands, whose power no power resists"
Robert Greene, Playwright
"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think"
Lorraine Hansberry, Playwright
"For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom"
Cao Yu, Playwright
"Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills"
Clifford Odets, Playwright
"Easier to climb up than to just hang on"
Ronald Harwood, Playwright
"If I had to give a definition of capitalism, I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women"
Christopher Hampton, Playwright
"Monuments are for the living, not the dead"
Frank Wedekind, Playwright
"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him"
Brendan Francis, Playwright
"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award"
Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright
"If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor"
Neil Simon, Playwright
"Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather"
David Hare, Playwright
"Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity"
David Hare, Playwright
"Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together"
David Hare, Playwright
"Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature"
David Hare, Playwright
"The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism"
David Hare, Playwright
"Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor"
David Hare, Playwright
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