Tony Kushner Short Quotes

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Catholics believe in forgiveness. Jews believe in guilt.

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It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.

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I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die.

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I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.

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A play should have barely been rescued from the mess it might just as easily have been.

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My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

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You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.

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Opium is the perfect drug for people who want to remain articulate while being completely trivial.

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One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

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I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

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It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing, forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

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Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?

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The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.

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The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.

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We all romp about, grieving, wondering, but with rare exception we mostly remain suspended in the Rhetorical Colloidal Forever that agglutinates between Might and Do.

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Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone.... Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.

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Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.

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When I started to write these plays, I wanted to attempt something of ambition and size even if that meant I might be accused of straying too close to ambition's ugly twin, pretentiousness.

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We can't just stop. We're not rocks-progress, migration, motion is... modernity. It's ANIMATE, it's what living things do. We desire. Even if all we desire is stillness, it's still desire for...

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