George Jean Nathan Quotes
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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
[Anger]
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No man thinks clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.
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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
[Patriotism]
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Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
[Politics]
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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The most poignantly personal autobiography of a biographer is the biography he has written of another man.
[Writing]
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.
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There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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Whether by design or accident, the fact remains that, with one small exception, no girl with a fancy Christian name has ever diverted the eye of a President of the United States to the matrimonial altar.
[Marriage]
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
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