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My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

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I'm hopeless at looking into myself and trying to see how things are working and why.

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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?

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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.

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In the end, my children put me on to Pink Floyd when they were teenagers.

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The thing about talking about human rights is that when one bears in mind the sharp end of it, one does not want to worry too much about semantics.

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Any revival in which I am involved is liable to change.

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I was an awful critic. I operated on the assumption that there was an absolute scale of values against which art could be measured. I didn't trust my own subjective responses.

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