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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
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Very few people who met my adoptive mother in the last 20 years of her life could abide her, while many people who have seen my play find her fascinating. Heavens, what have I done?!
Edward Albee
If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.
Edward Albee
When you get old, you can't talk to people because people snap at you.... That's why you become deaf, so you won't be able to hear people talking to you that way.
Edward Albee
Everybody wants to go see the big hit [at the theatre]. Not because it's any good. Because it's the big hit and everybody wants to be able to talk about the big hit.
Edward Albee
I find that when my plays are going well, they seem to resemble pieces of music. But if I had to go into specifics about it, I wouldn't be able to. It's merely something that I feel.
Edward Albee
