"There is unquestionably a contradiction between an efficient technological machine and the flowering of human nature, of the human personality."
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"I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it."
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"Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer."
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"A doctor could make a million dollars if he could figure out a way to bring a boy into the world without a trigger finger."
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"The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out."
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"Part of knowing who we are is knowing we are not someone else. And Jew is only the name we give to that stranger, the agony we cannot feel, the death we look at like a cold abstraction. Each man has his Jew; it is the other."
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"Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up."
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"Amos Oz is one of the finest novelists of this entire period. MY MICHAEL is a beautiful work of great depth and in some indescribable way lingers in the mind as a lyric song to his country's people as much as a moving love story."
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". . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think film is a completely different medium. I think a novel is much closer to a film."
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"The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty with the set, which required too much effort to move around. Having gotten the benefit of seeing it done once, I wanted to work on the script, to make it sharper and more pointed."
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"Down deep in His heart God is a comedian who loves to make us laugh."
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"That is a very good question. I don't know the answer. But can you tell me the name of a classical Greek shoemaker?"
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"Cleave to no faith when faith brings blood."
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"THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world."
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"It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man."
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"Jerusalem is ... the fabled city which for the Western mind is as much dream as stone ... a compressed symbol of our most sublime aspirations along with our most disgusting, hatefully brainless excursions into religious bigotry and fratricide."
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"Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died."
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"The world is always ending; the exact date depends on when you came into it."
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"Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result is that some of the sheer humanity has leaked out of the enterprise."
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"It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe."
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