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One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
When you make a decision to write according to a set schedule and really stick to it, you find yourself writing very fast. At least I do.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
...I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think?" Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
I thought about the nice clothes that I always wore. Well of course I did. I took pride in being the best dressed monster in Dade County.
And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.
For a few precious moments... I am back in Old Texas, under a high sky... where all things are again possible... and the wind blows free.
At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.
Our function as playwrights to some extent is to make audiences see with their ears, because films make us see with our eyes much better.
The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping.
We shall not cease from exploring, And the end of our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.
Rosencrantz: Shouldn't we be doing something--constructive? Guildenstern: What did you have in mind? ... A short, blunt human pyramid...?
I began writing for theater, and maybe because of that I've always thought of myself as a theater writer who does work in film sometimes.
Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.
Stage is the place of the playwright: you're guided by great actors and directors, but it's the playwright's word on the page that counts.
Most good work is a combination of parts you love and parts you could do better. My constant mantra is, 'Next time, next time, next time.'
It may be that even if half consciously, we choose our personalities to maintain a certain saving balance in the family's little universe.
Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
Anything you put in a play -- any speech -- has got to do one of two things: either define character or push the action of the play along.
Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
We have not yet made violence against women abnormal, extraordinary, unacceptable. We have not yet come to see it as a pathological issue.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they’re waiting for someone to say, "You’re good, you’re pretty, I give you permission."
It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.
Why are women immobile? Because so many feel like they're waiting for someone to say, 'You're good, you're pretty, I give you permission.'
Are you learning me by heart, little Sara?" he said, stroking her hair. "No," she answered. "I know you by heart. You are inside my heart.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
You've got to make the rehearsal room very safe. You can't bully people, because if you bully people, they're going to freeze and lock up.
I don't imagine you will dispute the fact that at present the stupid people are in an absolutely overwhelming majority all the world over.
Oh, yes--you can shout me down, I know! But you cannot answer me. The majority has might on its side--unfortunately; but right it has not.
It wasn't until I was 35 or 36, when I wrote 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea,' that I began to get some notoriety, though I only made $5,000.
I feel the feminist movement has excluded black women. You cannot talk about being black and a woman within traditional feminist dialogue.
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
To be absolutely honest, what I feel really bad about is that I don't feel worse. There's the ineffectual liberal's problem in a nutshell.
I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.
I like to get produced. I'm not saying I write to be commercial, I mean "Hazelwood High" they light a girl on fire, so it wasn't the most.