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American writer of innovative plays and novels, 1897-1975
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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“An incinerator is a writer's best friend.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,”

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    I Like this quote I dislike this quote“There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head”

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