United States playwright; her plays were often indictments of injustice (1905-1984)

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Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of telling the truth.
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
It it not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.
Lonely people talking to each other can make each other lonelier.
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
People change and forget to tell eachother.
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.

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