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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."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."

"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."

"I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past."

"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."

"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."
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