"The Real Thing" Quotes
"The Real Thing" explores the complexities of love and infidelity through the lens of a playwright's real-life experiences.
plays | 112 pages | Published in 1982
Quotes
When I'm working, I work. I'm not on a holiday.
You can't have it both ways.
The most successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything.
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
It's not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn't be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.
I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you might nudge the world a little or make a poem that children will speak for you when you are dead.
I was taken by the power that savoring a simple cup of coffee can have to connect people and create community.
