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There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

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Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves.

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In London, love and scandal are considered the best sweeteners of tea.

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Heaven be thanked, we live in such an age when no man dies for love except upon the stage.

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The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex.

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Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

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Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years.

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It is easy to answer the ultimate questions - it saves you bothering with the immediate ones.

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I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: December 12th, 1929

Died: December 24th, 1994

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