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"My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine."
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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."
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"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."
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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."
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"Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides."
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"If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part."
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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."
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"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."
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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."
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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."
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"Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like."
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"Two more years were to go by before I knew anything about William Blake. Many years later, when his wife died, my godfather gave me the two books as a remembrance."
Wife

"I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe."
Love

"My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative."
Art

"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write."
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"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale."
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"That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have made me one, as soon as I got to the front."
War

"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
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"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow."
God

"I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in the form of letters, I knew that I could do it quickly and easily."
Thought
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