I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you…

Tony Kushner
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I just wondered what a thing it would be...if overnight everything you owe anything to, justice, or love, had really gone away. Free. It would be...heartless terror. Yes. Terrible, and... Very great. To shed your skin, every old skin, one by one and then walk away, unemcumbered, into the morning. ✨ Tony Kushner (2013). Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Revised and Complete Edition, p.75, Theatre Communications Group
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