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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

— Jean Giraudoux Tiger at the Gates (1935)

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The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The Enchanted (1933)

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Electra (1937)

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

Tiger at the Gates (1935)

You're an attorney! It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible.

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