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Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) was an American playwright and theatre director.

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There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.

Family, Fear, Nothing, Piano, Wire

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Charity, Opening, Play, Theater, Theatre

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

Female, Man, Men, Unhappy

Boredom is the keynote of poverty. . . it's dark brown sameness.

Boredom, Dark, Keynote, Poverty

Poor people know poor people, and rich people know rich people. It is one of the few things La Rochefoucauld did not say, but then La Rochefoucauld never lived in the Bronx.

People, Poor, Rich, Rochefoucauld, Say

One begins with two people on a stage, and one of them had better say something pretty quick.

People, Pretty, Say, Stage, Theatre, Two

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Equivalent, Humor, Logic, Moving, Reason, Self

Can success change the human mechanism so completely between one dawn and another? Can it make one feel taller, more alive, handsomer, uncommonly gifted and indomitably secure with the certainty that this is the way life will always be? It can and it does!

Alive, Dawn, Life, Make, Success, Way

Boredom is the keynote of poverty - of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with - for where there is no money there is no change of any kind.

Boredom, Indignities, Kind, Perhaps, Poverty

The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

Destroys, Hatred, Promise, Self, Unfulfilled, Waste

How many of us would be willing to settle when we're young for what we eventually get? All those plans we make. . . what happens to them? It's only a handful of the lucky ones that can look back and say that they even came close.

Came, Happens, Looks, Lucky, Say, Would Be

Self-deception is sometimes as necessary a tool as a crowbar.

Crowbar, Deception, Necessary, Self, Tool, Tools

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

Guise, Innocent, Kind, Sadism, Takes, Theatre

The frivolity with which all theatrical activity is conducted has one consoling feature-there are no rules of behavior that apply regularly to any part of the theatre.

Behavior, Consoling, Frivolity, Regularly, Theater, Theatre

Other centuries had their driving forces. What will ours have been when men look far back to it one day? Maybe it won't be the American Century, after all. Or the Russian Century or the Atomic Century. Wouldn't it be wonderful, Phil, if it turned out to be everybody's century, when people all over the world--free people--found a way to live together? I'd like to be around to see some of that, even the beginning.

Look, Men, Peace, People, Phil, Wonderful

There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.

Cure, Earthquakes, Good, Hollywood, Matter, Nothing

I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.

Dream, Eye, Moving, Speak, Understood

New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

Cities, City, Defeat, New York, Return

I have had the irreplaceable opportunity of learning my profession with the proper tools, the most important of which is not a pencil or a typewriter, but the necessary time to think before using them.

Irreplaceable, Opportunity, Thinking, Time, Tools

So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.

Audience, Hearing, Hours, Morning, Seven

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