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People change and forget to tell each other.

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Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

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It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

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You lose your manners when you are poor.

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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.

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If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

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Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

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Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

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Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

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Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: June 20th, 1905

Died: June 30th, 1984

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