I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. ...
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Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it.... Success is shy-it won't come out while you're watching.
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High station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience o...
