A man with a so-called character is often a simple piece of mechanism; he has often only one point of view for the extremely complicated relationships of life.


August Strindberg

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There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON
What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
AUGUST WILSON
I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
AUGUST WILSON
You can only close if you opened.
AUGUST WILSON
American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have...
AUGUST WILSON
I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
AUGUST WILSON
Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
AUGUST WILSON
Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...
AUGUST WILSON
In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER
The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY
I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER
The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER
We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING
As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING
My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ...
AUGUST WILSON
I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST
I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH
Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON
Muscles do not use oxygen at a constant rate.
AUGUST KROGH
During my stay in London I resided for a considerable time in Clapham Road in the neighbourhood of C...
AUGUST KEKULé
You have this novel idea of the world, like it’s made up of ladder hunting and test taking and fra...
J.M. AUGUST
Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sur...
AUGUST WILSON
Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps we shall learn the truth.
AUGUST KEKULé
I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch ...
AUGUST WILSON
Keep your hands moving. Writing is rewriting.
AUGUST WILSON
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced b...
AUGUST KROGH
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the line
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AUGUST WILSON
In 1980 I sent a play, 'Jitney,' to the Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, won a Jerome...
AUGUST WILSON
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
BILLE AUGUST
Doesn't matter how near; Doesn't matter how far; One thing is clear; I love you wherever you are
AUGUST LINDBERG
I haven't read Ibsen, Shaw, Shakespeare - except 'The Merchant of Venice' in ninth grade...
AUGUST WILSON
My hero when I was 14 was Sonny Liston. No matter what kinds of problems you were having with your p...
AUGUST WILSON
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.
AUGUST WILSON
The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num...
AUGUST KROGH
Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitu...
AUGUST WILSON
I was mostly interested in it as a theatrical film. Personally, I am not so interested in television...
BILLE AUGUST
It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an...
BILLE AUGUST
The big difference is the size of the crew and the flexibility of shooting because of the size. I me...
BILLE AUGUST
All you need in the world is love and laughter. That's all anybody needs. To have love in one ha...
AUGUST WILSON
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
AUGUST WILSON
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a numb...
AUGUST KROGH
In the tissues generally, and in such a cavity as the abdomen, the pressure is everywhere and practi...
AUGUST KROGH
The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a...
AUGUST KROGH
In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH
Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH