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Anthony Robert "Tony" Kushner is an American playwright and screenwriter. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1993 for his play Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes. He co-authored with Eric Roth the screenplay for the 2005 film Munich, and he wrote the screenplay for the 2012 film Lincoln. Both movies were critically acclaimed, and he received Academy Award nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay. For his work, he received a National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2013.



✵ 16. July 1956
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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
The Illusion
The Illusion
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Famous Tony Kushner Quotes

“Don't be afraid; people are so afraid; don't be afraid to live in the raw wind, naked, alone… Learn at least this: What you are capable of. Let nothing stand in your way.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“One wants to move through life with elegance and grace, blossoming infrequently but with exquisite taste, and perfect timing, like a rare bloom, a zebra orchid… One wants… But one so seldom gets what one wants, does one?”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.”

Tony Kushner

“Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.”

Tony Kushner

“It isn't easy, it doesn't count if it's easy, it's the hardest thing. Forgiveness. Which is maybe where love and justice finally meet.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“Love is the world's infinite mutability; lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in it; it is the inevitable blossoming of its opposites, a magnificent rose smelling faintly of blood.”

Tony Kushner The Illusion

Source: The Illusion

Tony Kushner Quotes about life

“We won't die secret deaths anymore. The world only spins forward. We will be citizens. The time has come. Bye now. You are fabulous creatures, each and every one. And I bless you: More Life. The Great Work Begins.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“I wish you would be more true to your demographic profile. Life is confusing enough.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can’t despise my whole life.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

Tony Kushner Quotes

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

“Respect the delicate ecology of your delusions.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

“You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go.”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“I don't understand why I'm not dead. When your heart breaks, you should die”

Tony Kushner Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

Source: Angels in America

“The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could reach it. That was deliberate.”

Tony Kushner

Source: Angels in America, Part Two: 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.”

Tony Kushner

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