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"It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses."
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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."
"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."
"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."
"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy."
"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."
"I made, over the years in Cambridge, several very good American friends, and America appeared to me, a land of promise in every sense of that word, a land of freedom from the inhibitions and restrictions that I felt in England."
"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
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