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    A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

    Action | Pure | Event


    Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

    Marriage | Bribe


    If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

    Secret | Agent


    In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

    Suicide | Virtual


    An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

    Best | Friend | Writer


    For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

    Dawn | Seem | Ill


    Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

    Home | Pride | Envy


    We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

    Death | Choice | Choose


    When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

    Happiness | Best | God


    Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

    Literature | Platitudes


    Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

    Nature | Reserves | Terrifying


    A play visibly represents pure existing.

    Pure | Existing | Represents


    I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

    Good | Moment | Danger


    I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

    Love | Island | Laureate


    Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

    Week | Beginning | Second


    I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

    Childhood | Unhappy | Form


    Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

    Success | Good | Purpose


    It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

    Beauty | Evil | Left


    The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

    Truth | Action | Theatre


    The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

    Freedom | Alone | Decisions


       

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