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"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung."

"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."

"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

"Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."
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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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