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The world may be mean, but people don’t have to be, not if they refuse.
To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.
If you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
"I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge,' because many people are tender of their resentments, as of the thing nearest their hearts."
"To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear."
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
"The soul of a person is revealed in their stories."
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
A writer's greatest tool is empathy, the ability to feel with others, to see the world through their eyes.
In every word of a true writer, there is a piece of their soul, a fragment of their eternal quest for truth.
The true power of a writer lies in their ability to make the reader see the world through their eyes.
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
人間は、自分が信じたいものを信じる。
I can't say I'm outraged. Other people are even more outraged than me. They feel that I am too dismissive of the honors that they value.