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It's not as if he didn't understand that much of his behavior was driven by desperation and self-hate, ... He wasn't shallow or unreflective, quite the contrary. It was simply the way he was. He was born wild, born troubled. He wasn't designed for the long haul; not everyone is.


August Kleinzahler

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AUGUST KROGH In many cases of inflammation, the vascular changes develop slowly and long after the application of...
AUGUST KROGH In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combin...
AUGUST KROGH Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the syst...
AUGUST KROGH In man, the mechanical breathing is essential to life, and it is one of the old tests for death to s...
AUGUST KROGH For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which...
AUGUST KROGH In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would b...
AUGUST KROGH My plays are ultimately about love, honor, duty, betrayal.
AUGUST WILSON My influences have been what I call my four Bs - the primary one being the blues, then Borges, Barak...
AUGUST WILSON I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'...
AUGUST WILSON The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural resp...
AUGUST WILSON As soon as white folks say a play's good, the theater is jammed with blacks and whites.
AUGUST WILSON Anything you want to know, you ask the characters.
AUGUST WILSON I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
AUGUST WILSON as soon as a work of art is of practical use, betrays a purpose or a tendency its beauty vanishes.
AUGUST STRINDBERG Svijet obično ne sudi mladića po duševnih vrlinah, već po školskih svjedodžbah ili kašnje po ...
AUGUST ŠENOA You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father
AUGUST STRINDBERG For the whole of life consists of nothing but contradictions. The rich are the poor in spirit; the m...
AUGUST STRINDBERG Society is madhouse whose wardens are the officials and the police
AUGUST STRINDBERG You not the only one who's got wants and needs. But I held on to you, Troy. I took all my feelings, ...
AUGUST WILSON I believe in music the way some people believe in fairy tales
AUGUST RUSH (AUGUST RUSH 2007 MOVIE) I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says ...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS I always say that I'm at my best when there's no example of what the character is supposed t...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS Oddly enough, I've always really loved Nightcrawler. You know who else they didn't use enoug...
J. AUGUST RICHARDS The cool thing for me is, I go to a lot of conventions - a lot of science fiction conventions like C...
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