Quotes from True West

Sam Shepard ·  76 pages

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“This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West


“Those are the most monotonous fuckin' crickets I ever heard in my life.”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West


“When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West


“Austin: "Well it is like salvation sort of. I mean the smell. I love the smell of toast. And the sun's coming up. It makes me feel like anything's possible. Y'know?”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West


“There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West



“You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.”
― Sam Shepard, quote from True West


About the author

Sam Shepard
Born place: in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, The United States
Born date November 6, 1943
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