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"The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember."
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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."

"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."

"While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen, it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known."

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

"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."

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

"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 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."

"Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt."
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