#ff

My mother wanted me off her hands. She was a working woman. She designed clothes, and she was a celebrity collector. It's my mother's ambition to be a celebrity. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#celebrity #clothes #collector #designed #hands

One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#between #difference #fade #into #live

Most actors are either a shower of bloody scruffs or think they should dress like Hamlet off stage. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#dress #either #hamlet #like #most

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't. ↗

— Stephen Sondheim

#got #growing #growing up #i #off-broadway

For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#affront #anything #cannot #consolations #controlled

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#degrades #feared #most #such #suffering

Success is dependent on effort. ↗

— Sophocles

#dependent #effort #success is

Alas, how quickly the gratitude owed to the dead flows off, how quick to be proved a deceiver. ↗