Richard Whittington/dick Whittington%E2%80%94stage Character

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    “Dr. Birdsell, my dramatic coach in school, always said that I was the most melancholy Dane that he had ever directed.”
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    “Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.”
    —Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)

    “Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.”
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