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  1. Sam Shepard _ Buried Child

    VINCE: I was gonna run last night. I was gonna run and keep right on running. Clear to the Iowa border. I drove all night with the windows open. The old man's two bucks flapping right on the seat beside me. It never stopped raining the whole time. Never stopped once. I could see myself in the windshield. My face. My eyes. I studied my face. Studied everything about it as though I was looking at another man. As though I could see his whole race behind him. Like a mummy's face. I saw him dead and alive at the same time. In the same breath. In the windshield I watched him breathe as though he was frozen in time and every breath marked him. Marked him forever without him knowing. And then his face changed. His face became his father's face. Same bones. Same eyes. Same nose. Same breath. And his father's face changed to his grandfather's face. And it went on like that. Changing. Clear on back to faces I'd never seen before but still recognized. Still recognized the bones underneath. Same eyes. Same mouth. Same breath. I followed my family clear into Iowa. Every last one. Straight into the corn belt and further. Straight back as far as they'd take me. Then it all dissolved. Everything dissolved. Just like that. And that two bucks kept right on flapping on the seat beside me.
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  2. Sam Shepard _ A Lie of the Mind

    Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I'm gonna' lose her when she's already gone. And this fear--this fear swarms through me--floods my whole body 'til there's nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns--it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I'll die like this. Lost. Just lost."
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  3. Sam Shepard _ Spy of the First Person

    The experience is always different than the plans. The experience was exhausting. I am still exhausted from it.
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  4. Sam Shepard _ Spy of the First Person

    There are times when I can't help thinking about the past. I know the present is the place to be. It's always been the place to be. I know I've been recommended by very wise people to stay in the present as much as possible, but the past sometimes presents itself. The past doesn't come as a whole. It always comes in parts.
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  5. Sam Shepard _ Buried Child

    VINCE: We'd never make it. We'd drive and we'd drive and we'd drive and we'd never make it. We'd think we were getting farther and farther away. That's what we'd think.
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  6. Sam Shepard _ Curse of the Starving Class

    {ELLA} Oh! You know what Wes?{WESLEY} What?{ELLA} That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?{WESLEY} Yeah.{ELLA} I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?{WESLEY} I don't know.{ELLA} You remember. What happens next?{WESLEY} A cat comes. {ELLA} That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.{WESLEY} And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky. {ELLA} And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.{WESLEY} And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.{ELLA} And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing.
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  7. Sam Shepard _ Great Dream of Heaven

    ....and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.
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  8. Sam Shepard _ Motel Chronicles

    people here have become the people they're pretending to be.
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  9. Sam Shepard _ Crónicas de motel

    Rondó por la piscina Del Holiday Inn Y de golpe se sintió completamente inútil La imagen de una piscina A medianoche En Texas Pobre Texas Excavada Como todas las demás 3/79 San Marcos, Texas
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  10. Sam Shepard _ Spy of the First Person

    That's the thing about later. You don't know what's coming up. You don't know how all the loose ends are going to gather together. Something for sure is going to happen but you don't know what it is."
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  11. Sam Shepard _ True West

    You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.
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  12. Sam Shepard _ Crónicas de motel

    Mi papá vive solo en el desierto. Dice que no se lleva bien con la gente.
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