Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs - they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
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