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George Jean Nathan
February 14, 1882 - April 8, 1958
Nationality: American
Category: Editor
Subcategory: American Editor

What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.

   

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

   

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

   

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

   

It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.

   

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

   

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

   

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

   

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

   

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

   

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

   

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

   

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