"We're all going to go crazy, living this epidemic [AIDS] every minute, while the rest of the world goes on out there, all around us, as if nothing is happening, going on with their own lives and not knowing what it's like, what we're going through. We're living through war, but where they're living it's peacetime, and we're all in the same country."

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Source : The Normal Heart act 2, sc. 11 (1985)

Larry Kramer

#Country Quotes #Crazy Quotes #War Quotes

“I worked at a hospital for a week. And at a golf course when I was in college at Kansas for about a week. The tips weren't good so I quit.”
“After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.”

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“A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.”
“I want to read Keats and Wordsworth, Hemingway, George Orwell.”
“It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.”
“If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.”
“I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.”
“What a moment to take the newspaper in one hand and the Bible in the other and watch the unfolding of the great drama of the ages. This is an exciting and thrilling time to be alive. I would not want to live in any other period.”

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