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Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

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It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

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They are always saying God loves us. If that's love I'd rather have a bit of kindness.

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Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

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Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.

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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

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In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace - and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

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The truth has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Playwright

Born: October 2nd, 1904

Died: April 3rd, 1991

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