In Chekhov, when people leave, a carriage is taking them away forever.
ADAM RAPPI’ve been living in Portland for five months and I’m not sure how I feel about it. I probably won’t really know for years because that’s how it works right?
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I’ve lost lots of relationships because of my having to ignore everything.
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You have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape.
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I don’t put big concepts on my work, and it’s all often about keeping actors in a room together and not letting them leave.
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I suffer from and enjoy an incredibly vivid dream life. A lot of times there is a sort-of narrative and other times they are just funhouses of non-linear imagery and other scary stuff.
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And there’s nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.
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I don’t know if I have the ability to write an ending like My Fair Lady’s, when everyone gets what they want after a few minor conflicts.
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Obviously the power of the Times is discouraging. It’s killing new plays, demolishing one after another.
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But when I’m writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I’m just impossible to get in touch with, and I don’t spend time with friends.
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Somewhere so deep inside that the doctors can’t find it with all their machines and microcameras.
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I don’t like it when it’s consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your $60. Great criticism is a kind of literature.
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When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There’s nothing stranger than the smell of someone else’s house
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I don’t mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart
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Grief does not expire like a candle or the beacon on a lighthouse. It simply changes temperature. It becomes a kind of personal weather system.
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There’s only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky.
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I’m pretty obsessive-compulsive and I’m very fast.
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