Eugene O'Neill Quotes

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• When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.
• Writing is my vacation from living.
• Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.
• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to…
• The sea hates a coward.
• Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing…
• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the…
• Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.
• While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.
• I will be an artist or nothing!
• Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
• The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past…
• One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
• I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.
• [Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it…
• Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
• To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the…
• I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never know…
• The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.
• Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

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