"In many of my plays, there was a……" — Sam Shepard
"In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man. The purpose of it, of course, was to write about myself. That character was always the least fully realized. Eighteen years later, you realize, That's what he was about."
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Sam Shepard
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