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"I would not like to be the only woman on the court."

"There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court."

"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."

"I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court."

"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."

"I should have known. The first tip I got was when she rarely showed up in court for the second trial."
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"My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish."

"The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay."

"The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them."

"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."

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either."

"It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's, but I felt I had to stick to my guns."

"Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years."
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