"People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?"
"You make beauty and it disappears, I love that."
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Source: Caryl Churchill (2008). “Plays Four”, Nick Hern Books
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