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"I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."

"The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it."

"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning."

"No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."

"If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason."

"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
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"I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman."

"Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word."

"I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act."

"My stage successes have provided me with the greatest moments outside myself, my film successes the best moments, professionally, within myself."

"We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playboys, cardinals and kings."

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture."

"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part."
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