Better in the Dark (of Pages, Stages, & Screens)

a fantasist, playwright, poet, queer, and NY-based secret tumblr user e-mail: © [email protected] pronouns: they/them/theirs sideblog: @jamieandclaude

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“I’m two different people with the two of you when you’re separate and now I’m in the middle and no one.”

— Mike Bartlett

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“There’s only one happiness. Finding someone who loves you.”

— Arthur Schnitzler, LA RONDE

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“Something in a book cries out to be read.”

— Gregory Maguire, THE WITCH OF MARACOOR

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“Most of us flee home to escape how we seem to be becoming. Some of us never stop fleeing.”

— Gregory Maguire, THE ORACLE OF MARACOOR

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“A story is a seed, but a seed is a story, too.”

— Gregory Maguire, THE ORACLE OF MARACOOR

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"So much of what we call wisdom is just the aftershock of survival." - Gregory Maguire, THE ORACLE OF MARACOOR

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"What I call drama is nothing but explanation." — George Bernard Shaw, "Epistle Dedicatory" to MAN AND SUPERMAN

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"The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book." — George Bernard Shaw, "Epistle Dedicatory" to MAN AND SUPERMAN

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I want to be a real person kind of person

— Lucas Hnath, RED SPEEDO

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“We all kinda look the same when we swim”

— Lucas Hnath, RED SPEEDO

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“Yes. You are her daughter. But I help her live.”

— Lucas Hnath, “Death Tax”

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“they hired us a boat that sank, don’t be stupid we should at least get our money back”

— Zinnie Harris, MEET ME AT DAWN (via betterinthedarkblog)

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Graduate school

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When one of us changes, we are all changed.

Gregory Maguire, OUT OF OZ

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"Sometimes new stories are just old stories badly remembered." - Susanna Clarke, "Snow"

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“Your estates will be repossessed by the city. A playground for children will be made out of them. They need one.”

— Bertolt Brecht, The Caucasian Chalk Circle

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“First thing in a crisis. Ancient times, soon as some major shit went down - war, famine, death of the Pharaoh - first thing you do, find a goat. Put all your shit on its head - fear, shame, iniquity, whatever you got - and you let it loose, out into the wilderness. Then you hunt it down, cut out its heart and burn it as an offering to the gods. Have you done that yet? Did I miss it?”

— Jez Butterworth, THE HILLS OF CALIFORNIA

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"Our representations of human social life are designed for river-dwellers, fruit farmers, builders of vehicles and upturners of society, whom we invite into our theatres and beg not to forget their cheerful occupations while we hand the world over to their minds and hearts, for them to change as they think fit."

- Bertolt Brecht, from "A Short Organum for the Theatre"