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Hugh Leonard [1926-2009] Irish

Rank: 103
Dramatist

Hugh Leonard was an Irish dramatist, television writer and essayist. In a career that spanned 50 years, Leonard wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essays, two autobiographies, three novels and numerous screenplays and teleplays, as well as writing a regular newspaper column.

Death, Life

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A thing well done is worth doing.		101
I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.		102
It's a natural thing for people to say, you know, Who's in this book? I find myself get ting a little defensive. People come along and I'm waiting for that first question.		103
My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.	Death	104
Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.		105
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.		106
I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished.		107
I don't think anyone is the perfect one to play me.		108
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.		109
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.	Life	110
The problem with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.		111
We are all the foolishness and all the crimes we did. We're also all the kindnesses we did. I hate to think of life as if we understood time. We don't understand time.		112
I think with every writer there are two people there.		113
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.		114
I've always enjoyed a woman's company more than men's. They're usually better looking.		115
My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.		116
Gossip is more popular than literature.		117
I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.		118
I've always believed in survival.		119
We were married for almost 45 years. We fought all the time, it wasn't a great love or anything, it wasn't a great, all-consuming passion. She was just there. A lot of people were startled because we didn't seem devoted but we were.		120

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