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Irwin Shaw

"Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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"From a cleansed conscience emerges a changed life."

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"Simple things have greater power than the complicated things!"

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"Abundance in life comes from generosity."

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"To live in bliss, love everything, including people, unconditionally."

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"With a foggy mind you see nothing but fog!"

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"In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices."
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"When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing."
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"People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly."
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"Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy."
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"The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises."
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"No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid."
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"I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?"
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves."
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