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"I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break."

"To do it nationally or internationally, you have to follow a few more rules."

"A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions."

"I remember thinking during those times that I wanted to write in a way where there are no rules."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology."

"I feel different than I did three years ago, in The Cider House Rules."
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"I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right."

"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."

"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."

"If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court, an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect."

"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."

"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

"I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights."
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