208 Quotes by Tony Kushner

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    One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

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    I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.

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    When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

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    Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

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    The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

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    It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.

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