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Category: Sarah Ruhl

When you read a novel, it seems that everything is clear, trite and understandable. But when you yourself fall in love, you understand that nobody knows anything and everyone must decide for themselves.

anton-chekhov, drama, theatre, three-sisters

When you snatch happiness in little bits, fits and starts, and lose it, like me, you become coarse, little by little, you become hateful.

anton-chekhov, drama, theatre, three-sisters

I’ve never been in love, never in my life.Oh, I’ve dreamed of love, dreamed endlessly, day and night,but my soul is like a fine piano that’s locked,and the key is lost.

anton-chekhov, drama, theatre, three-sisters

I think a person has to believe in something,or search out some kind of faith;otherwise life is empty, nothing.How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly,why children are born, why there are stars in the sky…Either you know why you live,or it’s all small, unnecessary bits.

anton-chekhov, drama, theatre, three-sisters

Oh, where is it, where did my past go, when I was young, happy and intelligent, when my dreams and thoughts had some grace, and the present and future were lit up with hope? Why is it, that when we’ve just started to live, we grow dull, gray, uninteresting, lazy, useless, with flattened-out souls?

anton-chekhov, drama, theatre, three-sisters

I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?

drama, meoncholy, theatre

Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical.

I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.

connected, differences, tremendous, wonder

Hands are difficult. You would think they would be just five quick lines, but no, they have personalities as intimate as faces. Elizabeth’s hands, for instance—they are fine hands, with long fingers that remind me of tapered candles. A person one has loved—the memory of their hands. Did they flutter or sit still? Dry? Moist? Cool on a hot forehead? What? That is what I wish to express in my paintings. The memory—of the movement—of very particular hands, even though they appear to be unmoving on canvas.

faces, hands, love, memory, movement, personality

I hate parties.And a wedding is the biggest party of all.All the guests arrived and Orpheus is taking a shower.He’s always taking a shower when the guests arrive so he doesn’t have to greet them.Then I have to greet them.

frustration, men, men-and-women, parties, relationships, showers, weddings

Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?

banish, happiness, happy, sad, sadness, song

When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

attention, children