"The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play."

-- Patrick Marber

#Character Quotes #Play Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Life is meant to be fun, and joyous, and fulfilling.”
“Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, the piercing knowledge that we ourselves will someday die, and the love of snow are in reality not some sudden events; maybe they were always present. Maybe they never completely vanish, either.”
“I would never want to move to L.A.”
“Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.”

Source : "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, 2005.
“When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if I'm telling it to one person only, my best friend.”
“You won't get ahead until you get off your behind.”
“I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me.”
“It's easy to come up with new ideas; the hard part is letting go of what worked for you two years ago, but will soon be out-of-date.”

Source : Roger Von Oech (1986). “A Kick in the Seat of the Pants: Using Your Explorer, Artist, Judge, & Warrior to Be More Creative”, Harper Perennial

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