"I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable pleasure, though I sin frightfully against the conventions of the stage. It is a comedy with three female parts, six male, four acts, a landscape (view of the lake), lots of talk on literature, little action and tons of love."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“The Press is not our daily bread but our daily sugar pill.”
“Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.”
“The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.”
“My sole ambition as a composer is to hurl my javelin into the infinite space of the future.”
“Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.”
“Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.”

Source : "An Unconditional Embrace". Interview with Gabriel Lyon, www.tolerance.org. Spring 1998.
“Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.”
“Farber had a huge effect on me as a writer. I don't mean I write like him. Farber is, first of all, a great stylist, a great writer. Anyone can read Manny Farber's film criticism, whether that person is a novelist, a poet, another critic, a historian, and learn a lot about writing by reading him.”

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