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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
— George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
journalist, film critic, writer
1882 – 1958
George Jean Nathan was an American drama critic and magazine editor. He worked closely as an editor with H. L. Mencken bringing the literary magazine The Smart Set to prominence and while co-founding and editing The American Mercury and The American Spectator.
All Quotes by George Jean Nathan
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
— George Jean Nathan
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
— George Jean Nathan
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
— George Jean Nathan
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
— George Jean Nathan
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
— George Jean Nathan
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
— George Jean Nathan
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
— George Jean Nathan
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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
— George Jean Nathan
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
— George Jean Nathan
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The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.
— George Jean Nathan
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I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
— George Jean Nathan
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The great problems of the world - social, political, economic and theological - do not concern me in the slightest...If all the Armenians were to be killed tomorrow and if half of Russia were to starve to death the day after, it would not matter to me in the least. What concerns me alone is myself and the interests of a few close friends.
— George Jean Nathan
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
— George Jean Nathan
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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.
— George Jean Nathan