Hugh Leonard Quotes

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• Gossip is more popular than literature.
• No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will…
• My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
• A thing well done is worth doing.
• In life there exist two classes: first class and no class.
• My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
• I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
• I've always believed in survival.
• I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
• I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.
• I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant…
• As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
• I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
• I think with every writer there are two people there.
• I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
• My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.
• The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.
• Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
• 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…
• 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…

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