Christopher Durang
Christopher Ferdinand Durang (January 2, 1949 – April 2, 2024) was an American playwright known for works of outrageous and often absurd comedy. His work was especially popular in the 1980s, though his career seemed to get a second wind in the late 1990s.
Quotes
[edit]- Will this long presidency of George W. Bush ever be over? Living through it is starting to seem like some ghastly, upsetting novel in which the hero is the country, and the president is this disturbing, pig-headed, oblivious villain who makes things worse and worse and worse.
- "Will Bush Ever Get His Comeuppance?", The Huffington Post (July 26, 2007)
- It is a sin to follow your horoscope because only God knows the future and He won't tell us. Also, we can tell horoscopes are false because according to astrology, Christ would have been a Capricorn, and Capricorn people are cold, ambitious and attracted to Scorpio and Virgo, and we know that Christ was warm, loving, and not attracted to anybody.
- Sister
Laughing Wild (1987)
[edit]- Here is the key to existence. Are you all listening? Here is the key to existence; when I tell you this you will know how to run your lives. You will know if you have been living life to the full, and if you realize you haven't been, you will know immediately how to correct that state of affairs. As soon as I tell you the key to existence. Are you ready? ... Always breathe. That's the basis of life, breathing. That's basically the basis. If you don't breathe, you die.
- Woman, sc. i
- If everyone took anti-depressants, Chekhov would have nothing to write about.
- Sonia, act I, sc. i
- I need a life. I need a friend. I need a change. But nothing ever changes.
- Sonia, act I, sc. i
External links
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Encyclopedic article on Christopher Durang on Wikipedia
