Occupation: Playwright Birth: July 1, 1876 Death: July 27, 1948
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our li….
To cease to love -- that is defeat..
In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written abou….
There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good..
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years..
Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship..
Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men..
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time..
It is through suppression that hells are formed in us..
Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were..
Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house..
We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance..
Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome..
As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish..
What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find..
Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain..
There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the….
Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage..
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true,….
I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit..
Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end..