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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Dennis Potter
Word
Hierarchies
Ideals
Printed
Jump
Across
God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.
Dennis Potter
God
Think
Writer
Lazy
New
Names
Up
Even
As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism.
Dennis Potter
Best
Writing
Criticism
Kind
About
Piece
Freud
Literacy
Displaced
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
Dodie Smith
Depression
Best
Baths
Hot
Noble
Noble Deeds
Cures
Deeds
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith
Death
Time
Beauty
Out
Horror
Takes
Ugliness
Turns
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
Dodie Smith
Luxury
Nothing
About
Seems
Only
Costs
Contemplation
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
Dodie Smith
Life
Never
Happen
Noticed
Things
Things Happen
Imagining
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
Douglas William Jerrold
Woman
Heart
Aim
Way
Take
Kneeling
Surest
Surest Way
Hit
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold
Man
Rain
Passion
Benevolent
Would
He
Merciful
Over
Mistaken
Duck
His
Umbrella
Held
Shower
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
Douglas William Jerrold
Time
Together
Made
Long
Ten
No Time
Like
Shirts
Hang
Fortunes
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
Douglas William Jerrold
Best
France
Between
Know
Sea
England
Thing
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
Douglas William Jerrold
Life
Love
Late
Worse
Like
Measles
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
Douglas William Jerrold
Truth
World
Wait
She
Used
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
Douglas William Jerrold
Love
Peace
Price
Any
The sharp employ the sharp.
Douglas William Jerrold
Leadership
Sharp
Employ
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
Douglas William Jerrold
War
Man
Peace
Living
Destructive
More
Material
His
Than
Manhood
Body
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
Douglas William Jerrold
People
Some People
Luck
Meet
Run
Some
Fond
Halfway
Ill
Old people whimper, and cry, and belch, and make great hollow rumbling sounds at table; old people wake up in the middle of the night screaming, and find out they haven't even been asleep; and when old people are asleep, they try to wake up, and they can't... not for the longest time.
Edward Albee
Time
Great
People
Wake Up
Try
Old
Out
Find
Table
Longest
Longest Time
Cry
Make
Sounds
Been
Wake
Up
Screaming
Middle
Hollow
Old People
Asleep
Even
Night
Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end; and I am at just the very beginning of what I hope will be a long and satisfying life in the theater. But, whatever happens, I am grateful to have had my novice work received so well, and so quickly.
Edward Albee
Life
Work
Funny
Hope
Grateful
Will
Long
Beginning
Whatever
Funny Things
Had
Well
Am
End
Very
Begin
Quickly
Just
Happens
Theater
Novice
Satisfying
Things
Received
Careers
That's all that counts. People being sorry. Makes you feel better; gives you a sense of dignity, and that's all that's important; a sense of dignity. And it doesn't matter if you don't care or not, either. You got to have a sense of dignity, even if you don't care, 'cause, if you don't have that, civilization's doomed.
Edward Albee
You
Dignity
People
Better
Cause
Matter
Care
Important
Sorry
Sense
Gives
Civilization
Feel
Counts
Makes
Got
dont Care
Being
Doomed
Either
Even
The avant-garde theater is fun; it is free-swinging, bold, iconoclastic, and often wildly, wildly funny. If you will approach it with childlike innocence - putting your standard responses aside, for they do not apply - if you will approach it on its own terms, I think you will be in for a liberating surprise.
Edward Albee
Funny
You
Will
Own
Think
Innocence
Approach
Liberating
Wildly
Responses
Putting
Terms
Surprise
Often
Childlike
Theater
Avant-Garde
Iconoclastic
Aside
Your
Standard
Fun
Bold
Apply
My exposure to Beckett and to late O'Neill was probably important right at the time I gave up poetry and the novel.
Edward Albee
Time
Important
Gave
Late
Poetry
Beckett
Up
Exposure
Novel
Right
Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality.
Edward Albee
Character
You
People
Personality
Own
Every
Those
Know
Material
Source
Source Material
Author
Your
Extension
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
Edward Albee
Sense Of Humor
Humor
Sense
Fine
No Sense
Ridiculous
I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.
Edward Albee
You
Divorce
Existed
Swear
It's a good idea to have friends both in Heaven and in Hell.
Edward Albee
Good
Hell
Both
Idea
Friends
Heaven
Good Idea
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