Hugh Leonard
Hugh Leonard
Hugh Leonardwas 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...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionDramatist
Date of Birth9 November 1926
CountryIreland
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I was taken completely by surprise. My wife died within a few minutes from an asthma attack. I was utterly destroyed. I was mad, crazy, I was howling.
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My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
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No exercise brings into play all the muscles of the body in a more thorough manner, and none is more interesting than wrestling. He will find no other exercise more valuable in the cultivation of faculties which will help him to success in agility, strength, determination, coolness, and quick exercise of judgement.
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My wife and I have enjoyed over forty years of wedded blitz.
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Sometimes silence resolves a conversation confused by Mad Misconstruction.
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Arnold Bennett was a writer I admired. He was actually taking notes at his father's deathbed.
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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.
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I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.
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My father I liked, but it was only after his death that I got to know him by writing the play.
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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.
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I'm a much nicer person since my wife died. I found out what pain is, so on that level I'm much nicer.
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As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.