"People shouldn't trust artists and they shouldn't trust art. Part of the fun of art is that it invites you to interpret it."
-Tony Kushner
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"I find writing very difficult. It's hard and it hurts sometimes, and it's scary because of the fear of failure and the very unpleasant feeling that you may have reached the limit of your abilities.“
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"There's a kind of a fundamental irresponsibility in playwriting, and the strength of playwriting comes from that irresponsibility."
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"I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about."
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"You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do."
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"Failure is not fatal victory is not success."
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"It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure."
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