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We'd be working in our motel room through the night, and I'd come up with an idea at two in the morning, and he'd start jumping up and down, pacing across the room, or whatever.


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ARTHUR MILLER Rascals are always sociable -- more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in hi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Socialism is a vast machine for churning out piles of goods marked Take it or leave it.
ARTHUR SELDON Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are locat...
ARTHUR KOESTLER True creativity often starts where language ends.
ARTHUR KOESTLER Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and wh...
ARTHUR PHELPS A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Id...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match.
ARTHUR MILLER The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want ...
ARTHUR BRISBANE The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happe...
ARTHUR MILLER It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendiu...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Experience is the key to greatness.
ARTHUR WILLIAMS I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, a...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the p...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.
ARTHUR RIMBAUD Cheerfulness, sir, is the principle ingredient in the composition of health.
ARTHUR MURPHY Hatred is a thing of the heart, contempt a thing of the head. Hatred and contempt are decidedly anta...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that existence and ...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Just like those other black holes from outer space, Hollywood is postmodern to this extent: it has n...
ARTHUR KROKER If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the concl...
ARTHUR KOESTLER A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entert...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man of talent will strive for money and reputation; but the spring that moves genius to the produc...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER