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"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."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."

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

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

"We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were."

"Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed."

"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."
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