Eugene O'Neill Quotes

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• I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. Contrary
• Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell… Beauty
• It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it… Been
• It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. Game
• Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and… Alone
• Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I… Afraid
• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. Anticipation
• None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you… D Like
• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price… Blame
• We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. Drink
• Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes. Eye
• Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth… Beautiful
• You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. Found
• I love every bone in their heads. Bone
• Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Cell
• God gave people a mouth that closes and ears that don't, which should tell us something. Closes
• Success is a stale finale Finale

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