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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
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"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
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"A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table."
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"Divorce is a declaration of independence with only two signers."
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"Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails."
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"To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while."
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"I'm old, but I'm still cute and strong. And very butch."
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"In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers."
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"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
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"If you really want to get to know someone, you have to divorce him."
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"As soon as she gets her divorce one of us is going to marry her. We don't know which. She is about as beautiful a woman as I ever saw, and very witty and well-informed, but it would cost a good deal to keep her in diamonds."
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"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."
Life
"What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it."
Divorce
"It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late."
Fun
"Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath."
Time
"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."
Love
"People keep saying, 'Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy.' I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief."
People
"That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution."
Writing
"I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image."
Emotional
"I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it."
Thought
"I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there."
Family
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