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George Jean Nathan foi um crítico e editor de teatro americano.

✵ 14. Fevereiro 1882 – 8. Abril 1958   •   Outros nomes G. Nathan
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“Bebo para tornar as outras pessoas interessantes.”

George Jean Nathan

Only drink to make other people seem interesting
citado em "The Portable Curmudgeon"; Por Jon Winokur, Various; Colaborador Jon Winokur; Publicado por Plume, 1992; ISBN 0452266688, 9780452266681; 320 páginas; books.google http://books.google.com/books?id=V0DUAXBkf_0C&q=George+Jean+Nathan+++%E2%80%9CI+only+drink+to+make+other+people+seem+interesting%E2%80%9D&dq=George+Jean+Nathan+++%E2%80%9CI+only+drink+to+make+other+people+seem+interesting%E2%80%9D&lr=&hl=pt-BR&pgis=1, página 88

De pessoas

“Casamento baseia-se na teoria segundo a qual, quando um homem descobre uma marca de cerveja que corresponda exatamente ao seu gosto, ele deve jogar fora seu emprego e ir trabalhar na cervejaria.”

George Jean Nathan

Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a particular brand of beer exactly to his taste he should at once throw up his job and go to work in the brewery.
The theatre, the drama, the girls - página 224, George Jean Nathan - A.A. Knopf, 1921 - 361 páginas

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George Jean Nathan: Frases em inglês

“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”

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" Undeveloped Notes http://books.google.com/books?id=xIEcAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage," The Smart Set (August 1922)
The World in Falseface http://books.google.com/books?id=7rlEAAAAIAAJ&q=%22No+man+can+think+clearly+when+his+fists+are+clenched%22&pg=PA21#v=onepage (1923)

“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.”

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“The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.”

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Materia Critica (1924)

“Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible a plea as baseball in Italian.”

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Clinical Notes, George Jean, Nathan, January 1926, American Mercury magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=k330MmVjym8C&q="Opera+in+English+is+in+the+main+just+about+as+sensible+a+plea+as+baseball+in+Italian"&pg=PA107#v=onepage,

“Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.”

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From his book House of Satan

“I have no patriotism, for patriotism, as I see it, is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.”

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Fonte: Testament of a Critic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931), p. 16

“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.”

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Living Authors, H. W. Wilson (1932)

“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.”

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[Lumley, Frederick, New Trends in 20th Century Drama: A Survey Since Ibsen and Shaw, Barrie and Jenkins, 1972, London, 12, 978-0-19-519680-1]

“The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.”

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Fonte: "Test of a Comedian", The American Mercury (September 1929)