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"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."

"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."

"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."

"Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was."

"What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out."

"Nothing is more idealistic than a journalist on the defensive."

"You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it."

"No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward."
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"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."


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"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."


"Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day."


"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."


"The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'"
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