Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.
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The only credential the city New York asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.Moss Hart
So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.
Moss Hart
A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but let those who have always had money ... be without it for a while, and they will soon discover how quickly it becomes their chief concern.
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The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.
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Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.
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Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.
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