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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.

— George Jean Nathan

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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.

Materia Critica (1924)

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.

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