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This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful.
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I always thought there would be more interesting people at my wedding.
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I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion.
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A wedding is for daughters and fathers. The mothers all dress up, trying to look like young women. But a wedding is for a father and daughter. They stop being married to each other on that day.
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Have you ever been so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
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Being dead is the most airtight defense of one's own aesthetic.
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There's a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime - a whole word for just being sad - about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they're going to die.
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg
Sarah Ruhl
Born:
1974
(age 51)
Bio:
Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a distinguished American playwright in mid-career.
Known for:
Eurydice (2001)
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) (2010)
The Clean House (2004)
Dead Man's Cell Phone (2008)
Melancholy Play (2002)
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