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/ page 75 of 1205 /On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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You don't need to pray to God any more when there are storms in the sky, but you do have to be insured.
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Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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The alienation effect in German epic theater is achieved not only through the actors, but also through music (chorus and song) and sets (trans...
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, ...
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Love begets love. This torment is my joy.
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Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
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A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
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What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible.
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Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
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By daily dying I have come to be.
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Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.
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The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
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We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.
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You need a certain amount of nerve to be a writer.
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A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.
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