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Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

'If a person were to try stripping the disguises from actors while they play a scene upon stage, showing to the audience their real looks and the faces they were born with, would not such a one spoil the whole play ? And would not the spectators think he deserved to be driven out of the theatre with brickbats, as a drunken disturber ?... Now what else is the whole life of mortals but a sort of comedy, in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each one his part, until the manager waves them off the stage ? Moreover, this manager frequently bids the same actor to go back in a different costume, so that he who has but lately played the king in scarlet now acts the flunkey in patched clothes. Thus all things are presented by shadows.': Erasmus, The Praise of Folly
It is a curious thing ... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.: Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.: Channing Pollock
Scratch an actor - and you'll find an actress.: Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967)
No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.: Wystan Hugh Auden
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.: John Simon
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.: E.B. White
In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.: George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
This country has been strip-mined by rich and powerful interests. If you dont like what they're doing, don't just sit there. Vote them out.: Ralph Nader (1934 - ), Playboy Interview - June 1992
Big nations are like chickens. They like to make big noises, but very often it is no more than squabbling.: Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Playboy Interview - December 1963

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