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- When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
- Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
- The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real…
- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made…
- Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
- All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization…
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