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"Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy - that's the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all."

"Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest."

"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

"Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go."
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"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."

"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."

"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."

"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."

"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
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