"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."

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"But the first published thing I did was a detective story, detective novel, and I did that on my own."

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"The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

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"Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it."

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"I was an accomplice in my own frustration."

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