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“Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.”

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I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

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I think writing for a world one has invented can be infinitely more interesting than writing for the world we've all inherited.

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Kipling said that Success and Failure are both imposters, and we should all listen to Kipling, if only because none of us are likely…

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Yes, I like Pina Coladas, and getting caught in the rain. I'm not much into health food, I am into Champagne.

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But thankfully, my first album, 'Wide Screen,' was sort of a critics' darling - everyone raved about it, but no one bought it. They…

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I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are…

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I always try to keep in mind that while the characters in a farce may find themselves in outrageous dilemmas, and may behave in…

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I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first time I work in a…

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I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

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Every songwriter lives to have at least one song that a cab driver who asks 'You write anything I know?' will recognize.

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I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us.

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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom…

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Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless…

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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two…

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Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

Martin Firrell

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A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the…

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Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good…

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I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own!

Adolf Hitler

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The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

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New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds…

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