Sam Shepard

Quotes by Sam Shepard

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Playwright and actor · American · 1943–2017

American playwright and actor (1943–2017)

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“When you consider all the writers who never even had a machine. Who would have given an eyeball for a good typewriter. Any typewriter. All the ones who wrote on a matchbook covers. Paper bags. Toil...”
— Sam Shepard
writers writing

“I don't understand my feelings. I really don't. I don't understand how I could hate you so much after so much time. How, no matter how much I'd like to not hate you, I hate you even more. It grows.”
— Sam Shepard
betrayal hate love

“You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.”
— Sam Shepard
hate love lovers

“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.”
— Sam Shepard
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