Dale Wasserman quotes

“I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold”
-- Dale Wasserman

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“I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.”
-- Dale Wasserman

Source : "Man of La Mancha". Musical by Dale Wasserman and Mitch Leigh, 1965.

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“What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.”

Source : Adelbert von Chamisso, Prosper Mérimée, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “3 great classics”

“Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last.”

“Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.”

Source : "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

“Mild depression is a gradual and sometimes permanent thing that undermines people the way rust weakens iron ... Like physical pain that becomes chronic, it is miserable not so much because it is intolerable in the moment as because it is intolerable to have known it in the moments gone and to look forward only to knowing it in the moments to come.”

Source : Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

“Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.”

Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, "The Radical Tradition: Fox, Paine, and Cobbett", p. 14, 1957.

“Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain.”

Source : 1931 'Too Much!'.

“On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.”

Source : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

“It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.”

“He has a heart of gold - only harder.”

Source : "Fictional character: Oliver Niles". "A Star Is Born", www.imdb.com. 1937.

“Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.”