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“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
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“Forget Regret, or life is yours to miss”
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
― Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.”
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Do you love what lurks in the shadows, the darkness, the gloomy colours? Do you love being scared and frightened, screaming in unison as a great book ...more
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