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If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.
Neil Simon
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Neil Simon
Age: 91 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 4
Died: 2018
Died: August 26
Entrepreneur
Film Producer
Librettist
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Playwright
Screenwriter
New York City
New York
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Standing on a ledge again. Everyone laughs at dancing monkey with the typewriter. Not for long, though.
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I don't use computers... I'm someone who needs to see the page right away in my hand.
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I feel like writing about a time when I was probably, and think all of us are, the happiest before the obligations start in.
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[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.
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I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.
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If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.
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I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.
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Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend.
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I love living. I have some problems with my life, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
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There's no such thing as a sure thing. That's why they call it gambling.
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It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.
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The first book was my first attempt at writing full-length prose.
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Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.
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I never write a play with an eye to film.
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Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
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All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.
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Rewriting is when writing really gets to be fun. . . . In baseball you only get three swings and you're out. In rewriting, you get almost as many swings as you want and you know, sooner or later, you'll hit the ball.
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I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home to me living 100 years later in New York City. I'm drawn to him because of his way with characters and their relationships with each other.
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I understand. You work very hard two days a week and you need a five-day weekend. That's normal.
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You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.
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