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"I've always believed in survival."
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"Adaptation is the key to survival."

"A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct."

"The best thing-in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing-about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it."

"When in doubt, choose to live."
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"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question."

"I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of."

"We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time."

"My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father."

"My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play."
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