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"I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out."
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"I cannot squeeze the stars, but I can squeeze my mind to feel the moon compressed."

"He calmed himself, shut his eyes, and fell asleep. The rear light of consciousness, like the last express train of the night, began to fade into the distance, gradually speeding up, growing smaller until it was, finally, sucked into the depths of night, where it disappeared. All that remained was the sound of the wind slipping through a stand of white birch trees."

"You know very well that I no longer think. I am far too intelligent for that."

"He didn't know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn't care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That's the solution."
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"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules."

"Those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will only be remembered for remembering someone else."

"I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none."

"We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off."
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