Spalding Gray Quotes

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• One of the ways to reincarnate is to tell your story.
• All the beautiful waitresses existed like eternal responsibilities.
• And just as I was climbing into that first-class seat, and wrapping myself in a blanket, just as I was adjusting my pillow behind my…
• I'm kind of this control freak that likes to create his own hells before the real one can get to him
• I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would…
• I was darkly convinced that at age 52 I would kill myself because my mother committed suicide at that age. I was fantasizing that she…
• The fact that New York continues in the face of all of the chaos, of the crime, of the madness, you just think that it…
• Everything is contingent, and there is also chaos.
• I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
• I see [my pen] as an extension of my musculature. It's like being a painter. It's the closest I can get to my breath.
• Real life has always let me down. That's why I do the monologues. I have always said I would rather tell a life than live…
• The only thing I don't doubt is my doubt.
• I say that I can't make anything up. I think of myself as a collage artist. I'm cutting and pasting memories of my life. And…
• If I can make people laugh it's like being a good lover.
• I think of New York as a puree and the rest of the United States as vegetable soup.
• I understood once I held a baby in my arms, why some people have the need to keep having them.
• Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.
• I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of…
• He won't fly on the Balinese airline, Garuda, because he won't fly on any airline where the pilots believe in reincarnation.
• I was raised as an upper-class WASP in New England, and there was this old tradition there that everyone would simply be guided into the…

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