QUOTES by George Jean Nathan
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"It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not."
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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."
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"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
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"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"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."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men."
Quote by -George Jean Nathan
"Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen."
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"I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink."
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"It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid."
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"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
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"Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired."
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"A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart."
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"All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky."
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"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs."
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"The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do."
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"The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others."
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"Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud."
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"An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did."
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"There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes."
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"A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other."
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"There is no legimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself."
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"The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions."
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"The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life."
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"Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful."
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"Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds."
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"The most loyal and faithful woman indulges her imagination in a hypothetical liaison whenever she dons a new street frock for the first time."
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"Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul."
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"I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost."
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"The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers."
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"A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to."
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"Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor."
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"Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney."
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"Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery."
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"It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body."
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"What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency."
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