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100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

This book is a compilation of essays that delve into a wide range of subjects, offering insights and reflections on everyday experiences and cultural phenomena. more

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Sarah Ruhl
Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl is an American playwright known for her unique narrative style and profound insights into human emotions. Her works cover a range of themes, including family, love, death, and religion. Ruhl's plays have been performed in numerous theaters and have won multiple awards. more

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“Don't get me wrong, I'm still not trying to die, but watching Valentino live through his End Day has been rough. It's hard not to feel like the author of his story is some cruel bastard who won't give him any wins. There's so many ways he could've died by now-gunshot or beat down with a bat or smashing his head on the curb or that fall back at the apartment or run over in the middle of the street—and he's surviving for what? To get rejected by his agent, and find out his sister is still stuck back home? I can't celebrate my life knowing his final hours are not working out for him.”

“The most inexplicable paradox of the work of art is that it seems to exist for itself and yet not for itself; that it addresses itself to a concrete, historically and sociologically conditioned public, but seems, at the same time, to want to have no knowledge at all of a public.”