"Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live a life. But I have to live a life in order to tell one."

-- Spalding Gray

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“Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!”
“Ours is the responsibility to show our gratitude by the actions of our lives.”
“Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. Itâ€™s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her hair, especially when they fight, and when they sing.”

Source : Dorianne Laux (2000). “Smoke: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.
“My wife is from Laurel, Mississippi, and she has a lot of relatives down in Louisiana, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport, Louisiana. We go down there a lot. We got married in New Orleans. She has a cousin who introduced me to swamp pop, which is sort of zydeco/Cajun music with a little uptempo pop swing. Now I'm a big zydeco fan, I'm a big swamp-music fan.”
“Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a civilian population, in particular children.”
“In Mallrats, you pretty much don't see him sell any weed, really. I don't consider him a big dealer.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“She had her addictions and one of them was reading.”
“Love is the most important healing power there is.”

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