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“VINCE: I was gonna run last night. I was gonna run and keep right on running. Clear to the Iowa border. I drove all night with the windows open. The old man's two bucks flapping right on the seat beside me. It never stopped raining the whole time. Never stopped once. I could see myself in the windshield. My face. My eyes. I studied my face. Studied everything about it as though I was looking at another man. As though I could see his whole race behind him. Like a mummy's face. I saw him dead and alive at the same time. In the same breath. In the windshield I watched him breathe as though he was frozen in time and every breath marked him. Marked him forever without him knowing. And then his face changed. His face became his father's face. Same bones. Same eyes. Same nose. Same breath. And his father's face changed to his grandfather's face. And it went on like that. Changing. Clear on back to faces I'd never seen before but still recognized. Still recognized the bones underneath. Same eyes. Same mouth. Same breath. I followed my family clear into Iowa. Every last one. Straight into the corn belt and further. Straight back as far as they'd take me. Then it all dissolved. Everything dissolved. Just like that. And that two bucks kept right on flapping on the seat beside me.”
― Sam Shepard, Buried Child

“....and in that wink I understood there might be grown men in this world who actually get a spark out of life.”
― Sam Shepard, Great Dream of Heaven

“Rondó por la piscina
Del Holiday Inn
Y de golpe se sintió completamente inútil

La imagen de una piscina
A medianoche
En Texas

Pobre Texas
Excavada
Como todas las demás

3/79
San Marcos, Texas”
― Sam Shepard, Crónicas de motel

“birds back home have some size and respect for human temper. How did fear and respect become synonymous?”
― Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days: Stories

“Our dwelling is but a wandering, and our abiding is but a fleeting, and in a word our home is nowhere.”
― Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days: Stories

“TYMPANI: Well, things happen fast down here. You gotta' be prepared. One day you're raising chickens, the next day you're buying up half of Mexico.

RABBIT: I don't want half of Mexico!

TYMPANI: Then you'll want something else. Sooner or later you'll want something else, and they'll find out what it is.

RABBIT: What do you mean?

TYMPANI: Some little fantasy. Some dream. Some tiny little delusion that you've got tucked away. They'll pry it out of you.

RABBIT: What do they care?

TYMPANI: Because then they've got you. They'll feed off your hunger. They'll keep you jumping at carrots. And you'll keep jumping. And you'll keep thinking you're not jumping all the time you're jumping.

RABBIT: Is that what's happened to you?

TYMPANI: What does it look like?

RABBIT: Well, how can you know it and still keep doing it?

TYMPANI: What else is there to do?

RABBIT: Are you crazy? They've got you kidnapped in here and you like it.

TYMPANI: So will you. You'd be surprised how fast it happens.”
― Sam Shepard, Fool for Love and Other Plays

“stewing about something in the past you can’t do anything about anyway.”
― Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days: Stories

“CROW: Harrison, Beatle did that ancient. It cuts a thinner slice with us. Roles fall to birth blood. We’re star marked and playing inter-galactic modes. Some travel past earthbound and score on Venus, Neptune, Mars.
HOSS: How do you get to fucking Neptune in a �58 Impala!
CROW: How did you get to earth in a Maserati?”
― Sam Shepard, Tooth of Crime

“DODGE: You're a funny chicken, you know that?

SHELLY: Funny?

DODGE: Full of hope. Faith. Faith and hope. You're all alike, you hopers. If it's not God then it's a man. If it's not a man then it's a woman. If it's not a woman then it's politics or bee pollen or the future of some kind. Some kind of future.”
― Sam Shepard

“She keeps coming over to my table and asking me if everything’s all right, as though I might be able to reassure her that the world is not coming to an end. “Yes,â€� I tell her. “Everything’s fine. It’s just history running its course.â€� She smiles sweetly and flees.”
― Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days: Stories

“Now? Why now? Why am I missing her now, Frankie? Why not then? When she was there? Why am I afraid that I'm gonna' lose her when she's already gone. And this fear--this fear swarms through me--floods my whole body 'til there's nothing left. Nothing left of me. And then it turns--it turns to a fear for my whole life. Like my whole life is lost from losing her. Gone. That I'll die like this. Lost. Just lost.”
― Sam Shepard, A Lie of the Mind

“Like some dogs, you don’t want to catch his eye.”
― Sam Shepard, Day Out of Days: Stories

“…and he was surprised at himself because he didn’t feel anything anymore. All he wanted to do was sleep.
And for the first time, he wished he were far away.
Lost in a deep, vast country where nobody knew him. Somewhere without language or streets. He dreamed about this place without knowing its name.

â€� Travis”
― Sam Shepard, Paris, Texas

“He’s a loner who doesn’t want to be alone, grappling with the incubus, a rippling of nocturnal waters, the nausea of unending nights. There are troubling moments of prescience, as he intuits future fragmentation, stoically kicking his way through the shards. He’s just going to keep on living till he dies. Whether he paints himself in a good or bad light is not the point. The point is to lay stuff out, smooth the curling edges.”
― Sam Shepard, The One Inside

“[ELLA] Oh! You know what Wes?

[WESLEY] What?

[ELLA] That story your father used to tell about that eagle. You remember the whole thing?

[WESLEY] Yeah.

[ELLA] I remember he keeps coming back and swooping down on the shed roof and then flying off again. What else?

[WESLEY] I don't know.

[ELLA] You remember. What happens next?

[WESLEY] A cat comes.

[ELLA] That's right. A big tomcat comes. He jumps up on top of that roof to sniff around in all the entails or whatever it was.

[WESLEY] And that eagle comes down and picks up that cat in his talons and carries him screaming off into the sky.

[ELLA] And they fight. They fight like crazy in the middle of the sky. The cat's tearing his chest out, and the eagle's trying to drop him, but the cat won't let go because he knows if he falls he'll die.

[WESLEY] And the eagle's being torn apart in midair. The eagle's trying to free himself from the cat, and the cat won't let go.

[ELLA] And they come crashing down to earth. Both of them come crashing down. Like one whole thing.”
― Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class

“I don’t go to the theatre at all. I hate the theatre. I really do, I can’t stand it. I think it’s totally disappointing for the most part. It’s just always embarrassing, I find. But every once in a while, something real is taking place.”
― Sam Shepard

“He had eyes only for California.”
― Sam Shepard, Cruising Paradise