He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. - Alan Ayckbourn

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I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

Alan Ayckbourn

He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates.

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As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the human race.

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Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money.

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I think of a plot, I think of an idea, and then I wonder, How can I get that onto the stage?. . . Whatever devices you use should always be there to serve the theme. If the theme has been overtaken by the device, then something's wrong.

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The darker the subject, the more light you must try to shed on the matter. And vice versa.

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There are very few people on top of life, and the rest of us don't like them very much.

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I'm not saying that I've cheated, being in an intense love with somebody while also feeling the pulls of being a young man, especially being an object of attention.

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Isabel Allende

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

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Dennis Prager

There are surely times when a conservative and a liberal would agree. We would agree on how moral it is to discriminate on the basis of race. There's absolutely no light between those two positions. It becomes a little more complex when you talk about law as opposed to morality.

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Irving Kristol

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