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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1897

Died: December 7th, 1975

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