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That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all.


J. August Strindberg

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AUGUST WILSON I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and ...
AUGUST KROGH [Wilson may never see the marquee or sit in the theater that carries his name. Last month, in an int...
AUGUST WILSON Writing has definitely been a refuge for me, something I needed to do in order to survive.
AUGUST WILSON I feel free, man,
AUGUST WILSON The fact that he was a self-made man, that he was a lieutenant in the army and became the emperor, I...
AUGUST WILSON [Reviewing the play's Broadway premiere for The New York Times, Frank Rich wrote that in] Ma Rainey,...
AUGUST WILSON I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.
AUGUST WILSON I'm glad I finished the cycle [of plays],
AUGUST WILSON I've lived a blessed life. I'm ready.
AUGUST WILSON I'm standing! I'm standing! My legs stood up!
AUGUST WILSON I found out life's hard but it ain't impossible.
AUGUST WILSON Many is the time I looked at my daddy and seen him staring off at his hands. I got a little older I ...
AUGUST WILSON it was as far away from New York as I could get.
AUGUST WILSON [With the cycle done and] Radio Golf ... a war between coffin makers and undertakers, Death taking a...
AUGUST WILSON He paused. ''But what if they say they're going to cut off the heads of my children? If it's just me...
AUGUST WILSON The Piano Lesson.
AUGUST WILSON For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I...
AUGUST WILSON There's no idea in the world that is not contained by black life. I could write forever about the bl...
AUGUST WILSON What comes forth from you as an artist cannot be controlled. But you have responsibilities as a glob...
AUGUST WILSON I think that if I'm at home sitting doing the rewrite, I'm going to write something different than i...
AUGUST WILSON You can only close if you opened.
AUGUST WILSON American society as a whole has a very short memory. There are a lot of things we don't know or have...
AUGUST WILSON I should take a page from my lawyer-every time I call, he's on vacation, four or five times a year.
AUGUST WILSON Regardless of the medium, rewriting and more rewriting is still necessary. No one gets anything righ...
AUGUST WILSON Like most people, I have this sort of love-hate relationship with Pittsburgh. This is my home, and a...
AUGUST WILSON In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
AUGUST SANDER The mob could begin to rule in a few days if these people do not get more food and water. I think it...
AUGUST PILLSBURY I don't like to call myself a poet, ... Most poets are shiftless, no-account fools.
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The New Jersey character - at least this part of Jersey - is straightforward, plainspoken to the poi...
AUGUST KLEINZAHLER The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.
AUGUST HECKSCHER We always think about the rights of the terrorists. But if there is an attack that you could have pr...
AUGUST HANNING As new developments they present new dangers.
AUGUST HANNING My first wife is a good woman, I still can't say nothing bad about her other than the fact that ...
AUGUST WILSON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST I had always been fascinated with Napoleon because he was a self-made emperor; Victor Hugo said, ...
AUGUST WILSON The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained wh...
AUGUST KROGH Walk in there. Tip my hat. Lay my money down on the table. Get my deed and walk on out. This time I ...
AUGUST WILSON