George Jean Nathan Quote Explained: Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

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

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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

- George Jean Nathan

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

- George Jean Nathan

Funny
Humor

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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

- George Jean Nathan

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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

- George Jean Nathan

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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

- George Jean Nathan

Comfort

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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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Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

- George Jean Nathan

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

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

An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

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

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there’s an art.

There’s no dew left on the daisies and clover; there’s no rain left in heaven.

You moon, have you done something wrong in heaven / That God has hidden your face?

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo.

I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.

Circumcision is where sex and violence meet for the first time.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

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