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- I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but…
- All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.
- This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling…
- When we were arguing on my twenty-fourth birthday, she left the kitchen, came back with a pistol, and fired it at me five times from…
- In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just…
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- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle