"Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays."

-- John O'Hara

#Men Quotes #Play Quotes #Tickets Quotes

“A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it.”
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.”

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“The time to recognize the power of community is here again. Not as some romanticized renaissance from times past, but as a necessarily new and innovative response to "life as it is offering itself to us."”
“People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.”

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“We civilians defend our own right to free speech. The military in Iraq does not defend our right to free speech.”
“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

Source : Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph
“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1, scene 1)”
“[Interminable monologues] became an issue only late in [Adolf] Hitler's life. He became repetitive after the war started going badly in Russia. He wasn't like this earlier on, he could be very funny in our small group, very relaxed, teasing and it was just a relaxed atmosphere.”

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