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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Optimistic, Optimism, Scar

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

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• Like a saint's vision of beatitude. Like the veil of things as they seem drawn back by an unseen hand. For a second you see—and seeing the secret, are the secret. For a second there is meaning! Then the hand lets the veil fall and you are alone, lost in the fog again, and you stumble on toward nowhere, for no good reason!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Fall, Fog, Hands

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

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• You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Secret, Sin, Found

  Eugene O'Neill (2016). “Mourning Becomes Electra”, p.22, Jester House Publishing

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• Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Spiritual, Succeed, Middle

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

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• Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Truth, World

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.11, Infobase Publishing

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• Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Lying, Long

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.413, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Memories, Devil, Cherish

  1928 Marsden. Strange Interlude, pt.1, act 2.

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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• I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly what not to do. Not to take ten lines, for instance, to say something that can be said in one line.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Years, Class, Bakers

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.32, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Wine, Kissing, Play

  Eugene O'Neill, Donald Clifford Gallup (1980). “Poems, 1912-1944”, Ticknor & Fields, 1980

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• A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Love, Games, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions”, p.160, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Pride, Vanity

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• I will be an artist or nothing!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Art, Artist

  Eugene O'Neill, Travis Bogard, Jackson R. Bryer (1988). “Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill”, p.36, Yale University Press

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• I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dying, Rooms, Famous Last Words

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• A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Work, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.36, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

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  Dream, Lying, Giving

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.453, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

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  Hate, Giving, Forever

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may have to be unbound, and old scars pointed to with pride, to prove to ourselves we have been brave and noble.

  Eugene O'Neill

  War, Pride, Old Wounds

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

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• The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Children, Mean, Men

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Bones, Critics

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Cat, Curiosity, Satisfaction

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• Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

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  Writing, Light, Play

  Eugene O'Neill (1987). “Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book”, G. Narr Verlag

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• When men make gods, there is no God!

  Eugene O'Neill

  God, Men, There Is No God

  1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 2, sc.2.

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• We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Song, Men, Thinking

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.13, The Floating Press

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