"I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life."

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Source : Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

Eugene O'Neill

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“Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.”
“I don't think that we should look to celebrities to solve problems that are on our end of the street.”

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“To be honest, I don't watch a lot of TV. It's kind of ironic because I'm on TV.”
“One can hardly appreciate how academia has perverted its highest tasks and "ideals" without pondering long and hard the implications of Jacques Barzun's House of Intellect and its Hegelian/Bergsonian contrast between rigidified "intellect" and always-growing "intelligence." This fundamentally Hegelian distinction, needless to say, cuts to the quick of the contrast between Platonic and Aristotelian forms of philosophy.”
“If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an immense delusion; half the human race has been cheated and deceived, and churches are monuments of folly. If the Bible is the Word of God and inspired, all who refuse to believe it are in fearful danger; they are living on the brink of eternal misery. No man, in his sober senses, can fail to see that the whole subject demands most serious attention.”
“Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.”
“The surest way to get a job done is to give it to a busy man. He'll have his secretary do it.”

Source : Jacob Morton Braude (1966). “Speaker's desk book of quips, quotes, & anecdotes”
“It is almost as easy to be enervated by triumph as by defeat.”

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