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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

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There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

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Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

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I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

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I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

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We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.

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If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don't regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 26th, 1911

Died: February 25th, 1983

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