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A thing well done is worth doing.

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Gossip is more popular than literature.

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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

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We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.

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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.

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As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.

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I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

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I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

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I think with every writer there are two people there.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 9th, 1926

Died: February 12th, 2009

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