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as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.


August Strindberg

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AUGUST WILSON I think all in all, one thing a lot of plays seem to be saying is that we need to, as black American...
AUGUST WILSON I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a ...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. ...
AUGUST WILSON Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the c...
AUGUST WILSON If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
AUGUST HECKSCHER Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your...
AUGUST WILSON He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original...
BILLE AUGUST Most of black America is in housing projects, without jobs, living on welfare. And this is not the c...
AUGUST WILSON In many organisms, including man, the mechanical respiration and the circulation of the blood are &#...
AUGUST KROGH I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reaso...
AUGUST WILSON I'm a De Niro fan. I went eleven years without seeing a movie; the last one before that, Februar...
AUGUST WILSON What a person praises is perhaps a surer standard, even, than what he condemns, of his character, in...
AUGUST HARE Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
AUGUST HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
AUGUST HARE Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to hav...
AUGUST HARE We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the d...
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
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JOHN AUGUST post-apocalyptic fantasy.
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JOHN AUGUST On the surface, she appears to be a monster but in fact she is kind and sweet and misunderstood.
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AUGUST WILSON We were not ready to play. The matches we won, everybody contributed and the most we lost everybody ...
DON AUGUST We challenged New Trier a little bit in the second game. New Trier is just a little better than us r...
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AUGUST WILSON Black actors are mostly locked out of the house, and there is something dreadfully wrong with that,
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AUGUST WILSON All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one hand ...
AUGUST WILSON To my observation, the black middle class has failed to return the expertise and sophistication and ...
AUGUST WILSON Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to...
AUGUST WILSON When blacks made purchases in any store, they weren't given paper bags; instead, they had to carry o...
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AUGUST WILSON Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end. Everybody got it.
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AUGUST WILSON Blacks in America want to forget about slavery -- the stigma, the shame. That's the wrong move. If y...
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AUGUST WILSON It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself...
AUGUST WILSON I might be a different kind of fool, but I ain't gonna be the same fool twice.
AUGUST WILSON We are running out of energy, mental energy, ... We need to generate something new, for ourselves.
AUGUST WILSON Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
AUGUST WILSON An August heritage / August Wilson and The Pittsburgh Cycle
AUGUST WILSON assimilation that black Americans have been rejecting for the past 380 years.
AUGUST WILSON Gem of the Ocean,
AUGUST WILSON My plays are talky; I say shut up and listen. They are about black men talking, and in American soci...
AUGUST WILSON Between speeches and awards, you can find something to do every other week. It's hard to write. Your...
AUGUST WILSON You look up one day and you hate the whiskey, and you hate the women, and you hate the piano. But th...
AUGUST WILSON I need a woman that fits in my hand.
AUGUST WILSON I don't have a musical background. But I do enjoy all kinds of music. It's an expression of the huma...
AUGUST WILSON You have to make your own definition of yourself. That's crucial. When I do interviews, I am expecte...
AUGUST WILSON I still don't know what works until it works, until I see it working. It wasn't through seeing other...
AUGUST WILSON I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
AUGUST WILSON I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is...
AUGUST WILSON When you look at a fellow, if you taught yourself to look for it, you can see his song written on hi...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
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AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
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AUGUST WILSON I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON I feel free, man,
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AUGUST WILSON [Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,...
AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
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AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get.
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AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me...
AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson.
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AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
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AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened.
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AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
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AUGUST WILSON In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers.
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AUGUST WILSON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
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AUGUST WILSON In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade...
AUGUST WILSON My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your p...
AUGUST WILSON Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitu...
AUGUST WILSON I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one ha...
AUGUST WILSON All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
AUGUST WILSON The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
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