Hugh Leonard Quotes

• My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

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• 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.

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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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• The problem with Ireland is that it’s a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent.

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• My mother was passionate. She was stubborn, the dominant one in the family. She dominated my father.

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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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• 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.

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• I’ve always enjoyed a woman’s company more than men’s. They’re usually better looking.

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• I’ve always believed in survival.

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• I think with every writer there are two people there.

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• I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.

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• I don’t think anyone is the perfect one to play me.

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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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• Gossip is more popular than literature.

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• As somebody once said, we’re not punished for our sins, we’re punished by them.

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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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• A thing well done is worth doing.

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Hugh Leonard (20)

Birth:	9th November, 1926
Death:	12th February, 2009
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Playwright, Screenwriter

About

Hugh Leonard was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish playwright, screenwriter, novelist, essayist and newspaper columnist. He wrote nearly 30 full-length plays, 10 one-act plays, three volumes of essays, three novels, and numerous screenplays and teleplays. He worked as a civil servant. He educated at Presentation College, Glasthule. He wrote several plays include: A Leap in the Dark, Madigan's Lock, The Passion of Peter Ginty, Stephen D, The Poker Session, The Saints Go Cycling In, Da, Summer, Suburb of Babylon, Some of My Best Friends Are Husbands, Liam Liar, A Life, Moving, The Mask of Moriarty, and Love in the Title. His autobiographical play “Da” won four Tony Awards in 1978. He wrote several novels include: Parnell and the Englishwoman, A Wild People, and Fillums. He wrote several films include: Interlude, Great Catherine, Percy, Our Miss Fred, Da, and Widows' Peak.

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