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• It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable…
• You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then…
• He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate…
• It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and…
• If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!
• Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.
• Acting might bring on emotional exhaustion, but writing tired your brains out. Writing led to depression and insomnia and walking around all…
• Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?
• I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.
• He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.
• He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.
• God knows there certainly ought to be a window around here somewhere, for all of us.

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