"I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. Theyâ€™re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isnâ€™t a wound being excavated from childhood."

-- Sarah Ruhl

#Play Quotes #People Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“I also know there are timeless waters, endless seas, and lots of people in this world whose names don't matter to anyone but themselves. I look up at the sky and I see you there.”
“love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit”
“I'm not exactly an Einstein, so I compensate by being more focused.”
“Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you”
“One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.”
“I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.”
“Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.”

Source : Larry McMurtry (1983). “In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas”
“I was an accidental actor. I was never formally trained.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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