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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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"Please do not ask me to talk about my divorce. Mr. Ziegfeld and I are such very good friends. It is only a little matter quite between ourselves."
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"Yes, the divorce was difficult. It was difficult."
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"Being divorced does not necessarily make one's advice on marriage useless - or useful."
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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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"I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you."
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"Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash."
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"Divorce is an expensive punishment love gets when it fails."
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"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."
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"She would go to Memphis and this was after our divorce. And I would send her to Memphis to be with him."
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"So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong."
Delight
"I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done."
Help
"As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place."
War
"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
"He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something."
Reinvention
"It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections."
Reading
"It was fun. That was something I came to fairly late."
Fun
"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
"The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem."
Life
"I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel."
Love
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