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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."
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"If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth."
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"I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired."
Court
"I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays."
Man
"I also found being called Sir rather silly."
Being
"I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse."
Cancer
"All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage."
American
"Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world."
Attitude
"I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz."
War
"This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement."
Cancer
"The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified to find that it stood up. I didn't have to change a word."
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"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."
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