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“Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist’s fame.”
Source: The House of Satan
“A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.”
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“Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.”
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Source: The Critic and the Drama
Source: The American Mercury
Source: Beware of Parents: A Bachelor's Book for Children
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“Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.”
Source: The American Mercury
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Source: Comedians All
Source: Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff
“An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.”
Source: The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind
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“Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.”
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“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.”
“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”
Source: Materia, Critica: New Introd. by Charles Angoff
“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”
Source: A George Jean Nathan Reader
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“Love demands infinitely less than friendship.”
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“A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.”
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“Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.”
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“A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.”
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“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”
Source: The American Mercury
“To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.”
Source: The World in Falseface
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“An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.”
Source: Encyclopedia of the Theatre
“An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.”
“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”
Source: The Critic and the Drama
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“It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.”
Source: Monks are Monks: A Diagnostic Scherzo
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Source: The magic mirror: selected writings on the theatre
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“I drink to make other people interesting.”
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“The triumph of sugar over diabetes.”
Source: Comedians All
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