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"I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer."
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"And I'm as attached to my wife as anybody can be to another human being."

"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife I started out with twenty-eight years ago."

"If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter."

"If a composer has a nice wife and some nice children, how can he let the children starve on his dissonances?"

"I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance."
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"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."

"I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished."

"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
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