Sam Shepard (Author of True West)

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Sam Shepard

Born

in Fort Sheridan, Illinois, The United States

November 06, 1943

Died

July 30, 2017

Website

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Theatre

Influences

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Sam Shepard was an American artist who worked as an award-winning playwright, writer and actor. His many written works are known for being frank and often absurd, as well as for having an authentic sense of the style and sensibility of the gritty modern American west. He was an actor of the stage and motion pictures; a director of stage and film; author of several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs; and a musician.

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	True West 3.68 avg rating — 11,332 ratings — published 1981 — 31 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Buried Child 3.86 avg rating — 9,987 ratings — published 1979 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seven Plays by Sam Shepard, Richard Gilman (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 5,509 ratings — published 1984 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool for Love and Other Plays by Sam Shepard, Ross Wetzsteon (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 2,942 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fool for Love 3.91 avg rating — 1,803 ratings — published 1983 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Motel Chronicles 4.11 avg rating — 1,632 ratings — published 1982 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Spy of the First Person 3.77 avg rating — 1,603 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lie of the Mind 3.88 avg rating — 1,251 ratings — published 1986 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Great Dream of Heaven 3.81 avg rating — 1,231 ratings — published 1999 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The One Inside by Sam Shepard, Patti Smith (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Foreword) 3.49 avg rating — 1,235 ratings — published 2017 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I believe in my mask-- The man I made up is me
I believe in my dance-- And my destiny”
― Sam Shepard

tags: disguises, faith, idenity, lies, lying, masks, personality, self-deception

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“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, Fool for Love

tags: betrayal, hate, love

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“You can鈥檛 keep messing me around like this. It鈥檚 been going on too long. I can鈥檛 take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You鈥檙e like a disease to me.”
― Sam Shepard, Fool for Love

tags: hate, love, lovers

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