Yasmina Reza quotes
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“Courtesy is a waste of time; it weakens you and undermines you.”
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“Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.”
-- Yasmina RezaSource : "Yasmina Reza: 'There's no point in writing theatre if it's not accessible'". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2012.
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“If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.”
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“What we like about women is sensuality, wildness, hormones. Women who make a song and dance about their intuition.”
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“After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.”
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“Women always think you need a man, you need a father, as if they'd be the slightest use. Men are a dead weight, they're clumsy and maladjusted.”
-- Yasmina Reza
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“Don't waste your one beautiful life.”
Source : Ann Hood (2013). “The Obituary Writer: A Novel”, p.181, W. W. Norton & Company
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“There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.”
Source : 1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.8.
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