I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

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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 upon it.

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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