Tony Kushner
Born
in New York, New York, The United States
July 16, 1956
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Millennium Approaches (Angels in America, #1)
45 editions
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1993
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Perestroika (Angels in America, #2)
7 editions
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1993
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A Bright Room Called Day
2 editions
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published
1994
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Homebody/Kabul
15 editions
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published
2003
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Brundibar
by
17 editions
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published
2002
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Caroline, or Change
by
12 editions
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published
2004
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The Illusion
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5 editions
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1994
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Lincoln
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9 editions
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2013
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Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness: Essays, a Play, Two Poems, and a Prayer
5 editions
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1995
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Death and Taxes: Hydriotaphia and Other Plays
9 editions
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1998
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“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Perestroika
― Perestroika
“Night flight to San Francisco; chase the moon across America. God, it’s been years since I was on a plane. When we hit 35,000 feet we’ll have reached the tropopause, the great belt of calm air, as close as I’ll ever get to the ozone. I dreamed we were there. The plane leapt the tropopause, the safe air, and attained the outer rim, the ozone, which was ragged and torn, patches of it threadbare as old cheesecloth, and that was frightening. But I saw something that only I could see because of my astonishing ability to see such things: Souls were rising, from the earth far below, souls of the dead, of people who had perished, from famine, from war, from the plague, and they floated up, like skydivers in reverse, limbs all akimbo, wheeling and spinning. And the souls of these departed joined hands, clasped ankles, and formed a web, a great net of souls, and the souls were three-atom oxygen molecules of the stuff of ozone, and the outer rim absorbed them and was repaired. Nothing’s lost forever. In this world, there’s a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead. At least I think that’s so.”
― Perestroika
― Perestroika
“I've lived through such terrible times and there are people who live through much worse. But you see them living anyway. When they're more spirit than body, more sores than skin, when they're burned and in agony, when flies lay eggs in the corners of the eyes of their children - they live. Death usually has to take life away. I don't know if that's just the animal. I don't know if it's not braver to die, but I recognize the habit; the addiction to being alive. So we live past hope. If I can find hope anywhere, that's it, that's the best I can do. It's so much not enough. It's so inadequate. But still bless me anyway. I want more life.”
― Angels in America
― Angels in America
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