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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
Sam Shepard
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Sam Shepard
Age: 73 †
Born: 1943
Born: November 5
Died: 2017
Died: July 27
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Ive been so spoiled in the theater, writing plays where I can just do exactly what I want and nobody messes with me.
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Keep away from fantasy. Shake off the image.
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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. Toilet paper. Who had their writing destroyed by their jailers. Who persisted beyond all odds.
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There's gonna be a general lack of toast in the neighborhood this morning.
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The funny thing about having all this so-called success is that behind it is a certain horrible emptiness.
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I'll develop my own image. I'm an original man. A one and only. I just need some help.
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
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It's one of the great tragedies of our contemporary life in America, that families fall apart. Almost everybody has that in common.
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When you see the way things deteriorate before your very eyes. Everything running down hill. It's kind of silly to even think about youth.
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My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
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I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write.
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