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In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to see whether these movements have ceased completely.


August Krogh

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AUGUST WILSON People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
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AUGUST STRINDBERG Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman b...
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AUGUST STRINDBERG People are constantly clamoring for the joy of life. As for me, I find the joy of life in the hard a...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is a madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police.
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AUGUST HARE Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
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AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.
AUGUST BEBEL Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization
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AUGUST WILSON Take jazz or blues; you can't disregard that part of the African-American experience, or even try to...
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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 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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
AUGUST WILSON He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for tal...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human...
AUGUST WILSON [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.
AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a...
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...
AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
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.
AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
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AUGUST WILSON There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.
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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 Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is e...
AUGUST STRINDBERG 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 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 That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of ...
AUGUST STRINDBERG 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 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 What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect t...
AUGUST STRINDBERG A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point o...
AUGUST STRINDBERG I dream, therefore I exist.
AUGUST STRINDBERG My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
AUGUST WILSON My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak...
AUGUST WILSON I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
AUGUST WILSON I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
AUGUST WILSON as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG