"By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all."

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Source : Broadway World interview, www.broadwayworld.com. July 25, 2003.

Michael Musto

#Writing Quotes #Alive Quotes #Want Quotes

“I think the audience should take away that it's okay to be smart, it's okay to be funny and well-learned. You can be from academia and be funny; you don't have to be an idiot.”
“We spend all our youth chasing money, and when we attain it, we spend all our money chasing youth.”
“I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.”
“What sun is there within us that shoots his rays with so sudden a vigor? To see the soul flash in the face at this rate one would think would convert an atheist. By the way, we may observe that smiles are much more becoming than frowns. This seems a natural encouragement to good-humor; as much as to say, if people have a mind to be handsome, they must not be peevish and untoward.”
“Let's say that when I was a little baby, and all my bones soft and malleable, I was put in a small Episcopal cruciform box and so took my shape. Then, when I broke out of the box, the way a baby chick escapes an egg, is it strange that I had the shape of a cross? Have you ever noticed that chickens are roughly egg-shaped?”
“And remember this most of all: when it is darkest, that is when you can see the stars most clearly.”

Source : Kathleen McGowan (2010). “The Poet Prince”, p.141, Simon and Schuster
“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”
“I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.”

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