George Jean Nathan Quotes

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• I drink so the others become interesting.
• The triumph of sugar over diabetes.
• All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on…
• Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
• The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time.
• It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that…
• Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.
• A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
• Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.
• Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
• Drama - what literature does at night.
• The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does…
• Art is the sex of the imagination.
• It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their…
• A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its…
• The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have…
• A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the…
• Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
• The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims…
• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for…

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