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'Putting [the John Locke quote at the beginning of THE AMERICA PLAY] and also in the program notes may encourage people to think about the idea of America in addition to the actual day-to-day reality of America. 'In the beginning all the world was America.' All the world was an uncharted place, a blank slate, and since that beginning everyone's been filling it with tshatshkes, which we who come next receive and must do something with.'

-- Suzan-Lori Parks

Typical sources of these quotes . . .

• The work of another -- and often well-known -- writer:

  	A solitude ten thousand fathoms deep
  	Sustains the bed on which we lie, my dear;
  	Although I love you, you will have to leap;
  	Our dream of safety has to disappear.
  					
  					W. H. Auden

  from Craig Lucas.

• A lyric or phrase from a song:

  	"I could escape this feeling
  	 With my China girl ..."
  
  		-- David Bowie & Iggy Pop

  from David Henry Hwang.

• A folk or common saying:

  	ALWAYS BE CLOSING
  			
  		Practical Sales Maxim

  from David Mamet.

• Craig Lucas' quote from Auden practically summarizes the plot of RECKLESS.

• David Henry Hwang's quote from Bowie and Iggy Pop captures his Theme in M. BUTTERFLY.

• David Mamet's summarizes the code of his central characters in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS.