“Don't bother answering back. Anything said to me at this point might as well be written on a decomposing squash. The brain goes first, you know -- except the portions dedicated to pain, which are apparently immune.”

—  Robert Patrick (playwright)

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Playwright, poet, lyricist, short story writer, novelist 1937

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