"If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history.""

-- Quiara Alegria Hudes

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“a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.”
“If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I'm going to say this very plainly, you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.”

Source : "Perry Says He Believes Non-Christians Will Go to Hell; Rivals Pounce". Dallas Morning News, November 06, 2006.
“If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents, but you're not being slapped around at the top of the water by the waves. And that's sort of what meditation is like.”
“We're so arrogant, aren't we? So afraid of age, we do everything we can to prevent it. We don't realize what a privilege it is to grow old with someone. Someone who doesn't drive you to commit murder or doesn't humiliate you beyond repair.”
“My father, a ruined dandy from the South, had been reduced to keeping a small harness-repair shop and, when that failed, he became ostensibly a house-and-barn painter. However, he did not call himself a house-painter. The idea was not flashy enough for him. He called himself a "sign-writer.”
“But on a clear, sunny day? How would she know to flee when she couldn't see any place for danger to hide?”
“All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.”
“Wishing, hoping and regretting are the most common and dangerous tactics for evading the present.”

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