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You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.

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For time is the longest distance between two places.

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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

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When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.

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Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

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Death is one moment, and life is so many of them.

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To be free is to have achieved your life.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: March 26th, 1911

Died: February 25th, 1983

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