George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathan
George Jean Nathanwas an American drama critic and editor. He worked closely with H.L. Mencken, bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence as an editor, and co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEditor
Date of Birth14 February 1882
CountryUnited States of America
love heart broken
A broken heart is a monument to a love that will never die; fulfillment is a monument to a love that is already on its deathbed.
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
successful natural-instinct ham
A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.
men illusion convincing
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
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A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of Spring, love, and dogs.
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
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Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.