“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
Sam Shepard
Born place: in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, The United States
Born date November 6, 1943
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“He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.”
― David Malouf, quote from Ransom
“At last, she made her decision and grabbed Ico's hand tightly.”
― Miyuki Miyabe, quote from Ico: Castle in the Mist
“But the truth was that Laura Ingalls Wilder was the nicest girl I’d ever not known. Rennie would throw me under a bus for a piece of chocolate.”
― Jennifer Gooch Hummer, quote from Girl Unmoored
“إن عائلة الآدميين الكونية الكبرى هي قكرة طوباوية خليقة بأردأ منطق ".”
― Comte de Lautréamont, quote from Maldoror = Les Chants de Maldoror, together with a translation of Lautréamont's Poésies
“1 :
...
بإرادة الروح
تأتي أشكال لا تعد و لا تحصى ..
و بسبب هذه الإرادة
لا أستطيع حتى أن أتكلم ..
بإرادة الروح
((أي روح القدس))
تأتي جميع الأرواح
اندمج في هذه الروح
و كن عظيما ..
يإرادة الروح
يكون الخير و الشر
و بها يكتب
الألم و السلام
للجميع .
للبعض ، تحضر
الهدايا الوفيرة
للبعض ، تودي
إلى تيه لا نهاية له
كل شئ موجود ضمن تلك الإرادة
.. لا شئ كاذب من ورائها
آه يا ناناك :
إذا فهمت
الإرادة الإلهية
لن تجد
(نفسك)
شئ لتقوله”
― Guru Nanak, quote from Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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