"In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about."

-- Sam Shepard

#Character Quotes #Writing Quotes #Son Quotes

“I might dream, but I am no dreamer.”

Source : "Capitol Punishment: The Hard Truth About Washington Corruption From America's Most Notorious Lobbyist". Book by Jack Abramoff, www.politico.com. November 3, 2011.
“A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.”
“I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.”
“For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!”
“No two people will ever see or feel things in the same way, Merry. The challenge is to be truthful when you write. Don't approximate. Don't settle for the easiest combination of words. Go searching instead for those that explain exactly what you think. What you feel.”

Source : Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.229, Simon and Schuster
“My first husband and I are still good friends and there is no earthly reason why I should not see him. Larry and I are very much in love.”
“The Teen Challenge ministry was born out of those humble early days of ministry. It now includes over 500 drug and alcohol rehab centers around the world, even in Muslim countries. These include homes for girls and women addicts and alcoholics, all which are reaching many.”
“Nature actually works through intense cooperation. There is competition in nature , but it thrives through cooperation. We don't teach this to our kids. It's actually a violent ideology. It's why kids go into school and bully each other and god forbid do things even worse. Cooperation will become the marching orders of the human species or we're not going to make it.”

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