Krapps Last Tape Summary Quotes & Sayings

We tie ourselves in knots when we act as if democracy is good for the United States and Israel but not for the Arab world. For far too long, we've treated the Arab world as just an oil field. — Nicholas D. Kristof

There's an enormous difference between being a story writer and being a regular person. As a person, it's your duty to stay on a straight and even keel, not to break down blubbering in the streets, not to pull rude drivers from their cars, not to swing from the branches of trees. But as a writer it's your duty to lie and to view everything in life, however outrageous, as an interesting possibility. You may need to be ruthless or amoral in your writing to be original. Telling a story straight from real life is only being a reporter, not a creator. You have to make your story bigger, better, more magical, more meaningful than life is, no matter how special or wonderful in real life the moment may have been. — Rick Bass

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. — Jhumpa Lahiri

New affairs were exciting but they
were also hard work. The first kiss, the first fuck had some drama. People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me. — Charles Bukowski

Triumphant capitalism has unleashed a powerful drive toward inequality, not improvement, in the social sphere. — Herbert Schiller

Platonic England, house of solitudes,
rests in its laurels and its injured stone — Geoffrey Hill

Your opinion should always be based on what you have seen with your own eyes, what you have heard with your own ears and what you have felt with your own heart. — Tanya Masse

They aren't monsters!"
Her mother whispered, "Yes, they are. — Sarah Rees Brennan

When you really want want something the whole universe conspires you to search for that thing — Paulo Coelho

Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with. — Alec Baldwin

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind. — Donald Knuth

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted. — John Philpot Curran

It had made her too helpless, because that's what love did. There was no way around it and no way to fight it. Now if she lost, she lost everything. — Alice Hoffman

A truly good movie is enjoyable too. There's nothing complicated about it. — Akira Kurosawa

I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, and my boyhood was not a lot different from that of other youngsters. — Chuck Klein