"Mama, I know you used to ride the……" — Marsha Norman
"Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and it’s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you don’t get off is it’s still fifty blocks from where you’re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, it’s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as I’ve had enough, it’s my stop. I’ve had enough."
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Marsha Norman
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19 Quotes by Marsha Norman
Marsha Norman has 19 quotes on this site.
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We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy.…
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Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
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I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.
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Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.
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People do think that if they avoid the truth, it might change to something better before they have to hear…
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The theater is a communal event, like church. The playwright constructs a mass to be performed for a lot of…
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I'm just not having a very good time and I don't have any reason to think it'll get anything but…
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No. You can't. And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me…
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Family is just accident.... They don't mean to get on your nerves. They don't even mean to be your family,…
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Success is always something that you have to recover from.
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I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.
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