Eugene O'Neill citations

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“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men — and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come — until they're old like me.”

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Eugene O'Neill The Hairy Ape

Paddy: Scene 1
The Hairy Ape (1922)

“If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself - ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity - before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.”

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Eugene O'Neill

N.Y. Herald Tribune (September 9, 1956)

“You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.”

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Eugene O'Neill The Hairy Ape

Aunt: Scene 2
The Hairy Ape (1922)

“Supposing I was to tell you that it's just Beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell of the East which lures me in the books I've read, the need of the freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on — in quest of the secret which is hidden over there, beyond the horizon?”

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Eugene O'Neill Beyond the Horizon

Robert: Act 1, Scene 1
Beyond the Horizon (1918)

“It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bought the half of them down with the consumption itself.”

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Eugene O'Neill The Straw

Carmody: Act 1, Scene 2
The Straw (1919)

“Irish as a Paddy's pig.”

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Eugene O'Neill The Straw

Carmody: Act 1, Scene 2
The Straw (1919)