May 2013
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I used to go to the theater all the time. I grew up in the Bronx, and I went to...
– In His Eighties, Alvin Epstein is Still the Hardest Working Actor in New York City; But He Cannot Afford to See Theater. - Interviews - May 24, 2013 (via theatermania)
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"I JUST NEED TO FIX ONE MORE THING BEFORE I PRINT...
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BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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WHEN THE HOUSE LIGHTS FADE TO BLACK
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That one really committed light booth operator:
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…you’ll die alone because I will take what I want them walk away and owe you...
– Sarah Kane - Crave (via sarah-kane)
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“The truth is rarely pure and never simple” -The Importance of Being Earnest
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hall and... →
fuckyeahgreatplays:
ACT II, SCENE II
Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, GUILDENSTERN, HALL, OATES, and Attendants.
KING CLAUDIUS
Welcome, gentlemen; our urgent need did provoke Our hasty sending.
ROSENCRANTZ
Both your majesties Might, by the sovereign power you have of us, Put your dread pleasures more into command Than to entreaty.
GUILDENSTERN
But we four obey, And...
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So we bear on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The last line of the novel.
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It will not say, Isn’t X beautiful? Such demands are murderous to beauty.
– Bluets by Maggie Nelson
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time she stopped
sitting at her window
quiet at her window
only window...
– Rockaby (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
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Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a...
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via starfishlove)
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April 2013
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Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
– Tennessee Williams (via blue-voids)
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She made the mistake of all her kind. She thought that because Hugh’s...
– Look Back in Anger, John Osbourne (pg. 75)
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I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening...
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
(via theburnthatkeepseverything)
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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...
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You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t...
– Sam Shepard, Fool for Love
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There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
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The Impossible Decision →
staylorellis:
Maybe I’ve been in school too long; doctoral study has a way of turning your head into a never-ending seminar, and I’m now capable of having complicated, inconclusive thoughts about nearly any subject. But advice helps people when they are making rational decisions, and the decision to go to grad school in English is essentially irrational. In fact, it’s representative of a whole...
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Happy (day generally accepted as your) Birthday...
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There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of...
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via hip-)
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I missed you… and at the same time I was happy. Isn’t that a queer thing?
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (via robcam-wfu)
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A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his...
– Charles Peguy (via writingquotes)