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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involvi...  
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a...  
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.  
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?  
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if...  
I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries o...  
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment ...  
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.  
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.  
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.  
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast lan...  
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seeming...  
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.  
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.  
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the seco...  
Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and direct...  
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the...  
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.   Marriage
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your...  
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrif...  
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that raz...  
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some momen...  
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.  
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It...   Nature
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is...  
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipient...  
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our...  
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest ha...