- Nov 07, 2020
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- Chamber
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I don't have the final courage to say that I refuse to preside over violations against myself, and to hell with justice.
- Tell
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- Nov 07, 2020
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
- Cannot
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.
- Forgives
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- Nov 07, 2020
God forgives those who invent what they need.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
You lose your manners when you are poor.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020