"Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill."

-- Ray Bradbury

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“I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.”
“I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.”

Source : Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin
“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”
“All women on earth-- and men, too for that matter-- hope for the kind of love that transforms us, raises us up out of the everyday, & gives us the courage to survive our little deaths: the heartache of unfulfilled dreams, of career and personal disappointments, of broken love affairs.”
“Every character I get to play has some element of who I am, but there's no fun in playing yourself. At least, for me, there isn't.”
“No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.”
“You guys just here to blame someone. You never look yourselves in the mirror, eh? You're always good. You never make the mistakes. Your articles are always perfect. In reality, what have you done for this city? If you ask yourself, what have you done besides only criticize? Not much.”
“Let us be men with men, and always children before God; for in His eyes we are but children. Old age itself, in presence of eternity, is but the first moment of a morning.”

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