"My last refuge, my books: simple pleasures, like finding wild onions by the side of a road, or requited love."

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Source : Tracy Letts (2008). “August: Osage County (TCG Edition)”, p.17, Theatre Communications Group

Tracy Letts

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“When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.”
“It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.”
“The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what you thought was infinitely prolonged has ended.”

Source : "The Way to Minack". Book by Derek Tangye, 1968.
“I played a lawyer in a movie so many times I think I am a lawyer. And clearly I'm not a lawyer, because I got arrested.”
“To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.”

Source : "Ashcroft: Critics of new terror measures undermine effort", December 7, 2001.
“Shall I tell you what rock and roll is, Johnno, from someone who doesn't perform, but observes? It's restless and rude. It's defiant and daring. It's a fist shaken at age. It's a voice that often screams out questions because the answers are always changing. The very young play it because they're searching for some way to express their anger or joy, their confusion and their dreams. Once in a while, and only once in a while, someone comes along who truly understands, who has the gift to transfer all those needs and emotions into music.”
“Insanity makes the rivers flow.”
“You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.”

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