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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. ”
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. ”
An incinerator is a writer's best friend. ”
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. ”
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. ”
Without so much as turning a hair I freely admit that I am one of America's greatest realists. ”
Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating. ”
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born. ”
Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war. ”
A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing. ”