Irish - Dramatist | November 9, 1926 - February 12, 2009
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
Hugh Leonard
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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
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A thing well done is worth doing.
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Gossip is more popular than literature.
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I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
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We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.
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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
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I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.
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I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.
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I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
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I think with every writer there are two people there.
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I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
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