A playwright is the litmus paper of the arts. He's got to be, because if he isn't working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about. He is a kind of psychic journalist, even when he's great.


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ARTHUR WELLESLEY
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of ...
ARTHUR MACHEN
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
ARTHUR ERICKSON
The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.
OWEN ARTHUR
I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be pol...
OWEN ARTHUR
For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
OWEN ARTHUR
Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a g...
OWEN ARTHUR
The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive...
ARTHUR GOLDBERG
(...) a língua é, para o espírito de uma nação, o que o estilo é para o espírito de um indiv�...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon ...
ARTHUR SCARGILL
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British M...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
But that's one of the nice things about doing a stage show, if something doesn't work out, y...
BEA ARTHUR
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
BEA ARTHUR
I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was ...
BEA ARTHUR
I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can&#...
BEA ARTHUR
I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
BEA ARTHUR
I've seen so many excellent actors - excellent actors - who, the minute they're told they...
BEA ARTHUR
I can't imagine working without and audience.
BEA ARTHUR
I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV c...
BEA ARTHUR
Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we c...
BEA ARTHUR
I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've se...
BEA ARTHUR
My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up...
BEA ARTHUR
I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.
BEA ARTHUR
No fruit. No veggie.
BEA ARTHUR
In sitcoms, the women are so beautiful, understanding and well-bred. They have humor, but sort of di...
BEA ARTHUR
I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being...
BEA ARTHUR
Keep fighting for animals by making compassionate, cruelty-free choices every day and encouraging th...
BEA ARTHUR
You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
BEA ARTHUR
I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn'...
BEA ARTHUR
PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping ston...
BEA ARTHUR
It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these th...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to b...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any cond...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN
A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER