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Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow. Luigi Pirandello
Today You Reality Illusion Tomorrow Yesterday Whatever Believe Touch Seems Like Real Going
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! Luigi Pirandello
Alone You Man Women Old Young Enough Able Shame Casual Misery Unspeakable Know Look Sordid Without Go Affairs Old Enough Who Lives
The history of mankind is the history of ideas. Luigi Pirandello
History Ideas The History Of Mankind
I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. Luigi Pirandello
Myself Relationship You Achieve Wish Suitable Form Present
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. Marcel Achard
Politics Strange Made Way Those Seems Only Never Bedfellows Courtship Who Watched
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero. Maxwell Anderson
Spiritual Hero Tragedy Essence Regeneration Even Awakening Serious Play
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization. Mercy Otis Warren
Love Power Lust All Nations Arbitrary Arbitrary Power Degrees Prevailed Civilization Proportion Uncontrolled Perhaps Domination Nations Among
People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything. Moliere
Quality People Everything Having Know Learned Without Anything Ever
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless. Moliere
Integrity Heart Every Other Everyone Virtues Frank Would Would-Be Kindly Were Just Clothed Useless Every Heart
Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety. Moliere
Wise Extremity Perfect Leads Sobriety Reason
Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples. Neil Simon
You Happy Marriage Wonderful Care Important Every Out Ten Take Take Care Feel Like Make Couples Him Wonderful Marriage Two
You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy. Neil Simon
Life Me You People Comedy Matter Too Honorary Way Must Degrees Vocation Given Fact Generally Schools Were Led Scores Get Graduation Low Them Realize Regular Sat Whose Present
I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop. Noel Coward
Sometimes Drop Touching Drinker Hours Without Go Heavy
Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. Plautus
Friendship Soul Single Composed Single Soul Bodies Inhabiting Two
He whom the gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound. Plautus
Love Health Young He Judgments Sound His Gods Dies Senses While Whom
Those that vow the most are the least sincere. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Those Sincere Most Vow Least
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Good Gardening Miracles Over Around Does Spread Heap Fertilizer Little Works
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Time You Courage Remember Meet Everything Polished Antagonist Same Same Time Manner Mild Your Agreeable Keen Sword
For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds. Robert Greene
Another Souls Heaven Placed Far Deeds Star
In real life we don't know what's going to happen next. So how can you be that way on a stage? Being alive to the possibility of not knowing exactly how everything is going to happen next - if you can find places to have that happen onstage, it can resonate with an experience of living. Sam Shepard
Life You Experience Resonate Real Life Stage Not Knowing Living Everything Way Alive Possibility Find Exactly Onstage Know Knowing How Real Going Being Happen Places Next
The great thing for me, now, is that writing has become more and more interesting. Not just as a craft but as a way into things that are not described. It's a thing of discovering. That's when writing is really working. You're on the trail of something, and you don't quite know what it is. Sam Shepard
Great Me You Writing Become Way Something More More And More Know Great Thing Discovering Trail Craft Quite Just Interesting Really Working Now Thing Things
It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. Samuel Beckett
Good Day Memories Old Down Too Other Chronicle Worst One Day Recognize Bad Able Only Unchanging He Days Like Gently His Die Any Little Should Reason Grow Right
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. Samuel Beckett
Life Myself Book Beginning Pencil About Write Longer Him Another Exercise Same Just Whose
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can. Samuel Beckett
Analyzer Synthesizer Out Could He Joyce Am Leave Trying James James Joyce Much Bring
Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. Samuel Beckett
Me Together Wonderful Thought First Believe Worms Earth Something Drift Shall Through Perhaps Cliff Surface End Just In The End Then Acre Separate Sea Ton
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Samuel Beckett
People Our How How Many People Saints Boast Much Many Appointment Kept
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