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Failure In The Theater Is More Public, More Brilliant, More Unreal Than In Any Other Field.

History Is Made By Masses Of People. One Man, Or Ten Men, Don't Start The Earthquakes And Don't Stop Them Either. Only Hero Worshipers And Ignorant Historians Think They Do.

Most People Coming Out Of War Feel Lost And Resentful. What Had Been A Minute-to-minute Confrontation With Yourself, Your Struggle With What Courage You Have Against Discomfort, At The Least, And Death At The Other End, Ties You To The People You Have Known In The War And Makes For A Time Others Seem Alien And Frivolous.

If I Had To Give Young Writers Advice, I Would Say Don't Listen To Writers Talking About Writing Or Themselves.

Was It Always My Nature To Take A Bad Time And Block Out The Good Times, Until Any Success Became An Accident And Failure Seemed The Only Truth?