"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."

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Source : "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

Tony Kushner

#Ideas Quotes #Theatre Quotes #Waking Quotes

“You must put these dreams aside, they will only break your heart.”
“Love withers under constraints: its very essence is liberty: it is compatible neither with obedience, jealousy, nor fear.”

Source : Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.74, Wordsworth Editions
“Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.”
“Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public.”
“I'm living the dream. I've got a big tour bus, an incredible band, a big house, and a family that are all taken care of through my music. I've got a beautiful wife and three beautiful kids.”
“I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. It's here where my heart is and will forever be.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Golf is the most useless outdoor game ever devised to waste the time and try the spirit of man.”
“It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.”

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