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"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Conquered, we conquer"
Plautus, Playwright
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him"
Arthur Miller, Playwright
"Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons"
Carlo Goldoni, Playwright
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God"
Aeschylus, Playwright
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability"
Plautus, Playwright
"Their silence is praise enough"
Terence, Playwright
"I am human, and let nothing human be alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself, and our society is absolutely saturated with drama"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down"
Ken Hill, Playwright
"To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death"
Jean Anouilh, Playwright
"Childhood is a promise that is never kept"
Ken Hill, Playwright
"He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices"
Carlo Goldoni, Playwright
"Television is democracy at its ugliest"
Paddy Chayefsky, Playwright
"Personally, I have no bone to pick with graveyards"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"Birth was the death of him"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
"You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Only a mediocre person is always at his best"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"Impropriety is the soul of wit"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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