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So I saw one of the best plays I've ever seen yesterday. Big Love by Charles Mee, put on by some Case grad students. Aaaand I've picked up some good quotes that kinda characterize what's up in my life. Such As: (I haven't put in scene numbers because it's not seperated into scenes):
I’ve known men who think,
oh,
a woman,
I’d like to take care of her
not in any way that he thinks he is superior and has control
but in the way that he understands
a woman is a different sort of person
and precious because of that
vulernable in certain ways because of that
in ways that he isn’t
although he might be vulnerable in other ways
because of his stuff that he has
and that he treasures what a woman has
and thinks, oh, if only I could be close to her
and feel what she feels
and see the world as she sees it
how much richer my life would be
and so, because of that, he thinks,
oh, a woman,
I can really respect her
and love her
for who she really is
-Olympia, Act One
LYDIA:
Sometimes it seems to me
men get all caught up
in what they’re doing
and they forget to take a moment
and look around
and see what effect they’re having
on other people.
NIKOS:
I do that sometimes.
I wish I didn’t.
But I get started on a sentence,
and that leads to another sentence,
and then, the first thing I know,
I’m just trying to work it through,
the logic of it,
follow it through to the end
because I think,
if I stop,
or if I don’t get through to the end
before someone interrupts me
they won’t understand what I’m saying
and what I’m saying isn’t necessarily wrong-
it might be, but not necessarily,
and if it is, I’ll be glad to be corrected,
or change my mind-
but if I get stopped along the way
I get confused
I don’t remember where I was
or how to get back to the end of what I was saying.
LYDIA:
I understand.
NIKOS:
And I think sometimes I scare people
because of it
they think I’m so, like determined
just barging ahead-
not really a sensitive person,
whereas, in truth,
I am.
-Dialogue, Act One
Sometimes people don’t want to fall in love.
Because when you love someone
it’s too late to set conditions.
You can’t say
I’ll love you if you do this
or I’ll love you if you change that
because you can’t help yourself
and then you have to live
with whoever it is you fall in love with
however they are
and just put up with the difficulties you’ve made for yourself
because true love has no conditions.
That’s why it’s so awful to fall in love.
~Lydia, Act One
And so far my favourite:
Girls are socialized
so they want a man to be older
take charge
have money
have status
while they play hard to get
and boys are taught to feel stupid
feel inferior
not as smart as girls
then hormones happen
a boy wants a girl
she plays hard to get
so a boy learns to
talk big
develop a line
take all the risk
hit on women
not take the answer no
look for younger women
go for status jobs
how do the women
handle men like this?
they get more hostile
more aloof
they wear high heels
they diet too much
they hate themselves
they blame the men
the men hate them
it's a vicious circle
it's a vicious circle
so fuck these women
fuck these women
~Constantine, Act One
I’ve known men who think,
oh,
a woman,
I’d like to take care of her
not in any way that he thinks he is superior and has control
but in the way that he understands
a woman is a different sort of person
and precious because of that
vulernable in certain ways because of that
in ways that he isn’t
although he might be vulnerable in other ways
because of his stuff that he has
and that he treasures what a woman has
and thinks, oh, if only I could be close to her
and feel what she feels
and see the world as she sees it
how much richer my life would be
and so, because of that, he thinks,
oh, a woman,
I can really respect her
and love her
for who she really is
-Olympia, Act One
LYDIA:
Sometimes it seems to me
men get all caught up
in what they’re doing
and they forget to take a moment
and look around
and see what effect they’re having
on other people.
NIKOS:
I do that sometimes.
I wish I didn’t.
But I get started on a sentence,
and that leads to another sentence,
and then, the first thing I know,
I’m just trying to work it through,
the logic of it,
follow it through to the end
because I think,
if I stop,
or if I don’t get through to the end
before someone interrupts me
they won’t understand what I’m saying
and what I’m saying isn’t necessarily wrong-
it might be, but not necessarily,
and if it is, I’ll be glad to be corrected,
or change my mind-
but if I get stopped along the way
I get confused
I don’t remember where I was
or how to get back to the end of what I was saying.
LYDIA:
I understand.
NIKOS:
And I think sometimes I scare people
because of it
they think I’m so, like determined
just barging ahead-
not really a sensitive person,
whereas, in truth,
I am.
-Dialogue, Act One
Sometimes people don’t want to fall in love.
Because when you love someone
it’s too late to set conditions.
You can’t say
I’ll love you if you do this
or I’ll love you if you change that
because you can’t help yourself
and then you have to live
with whoever it is you fall in love with
however they are
and just put up with the difficulties you’ve made for yourself
because true love has no conditions.
That’s why it’s so awful to fall in love.
~Lydia, Act One
And so far my favourite:
Girls are socialized
so they want a man to be older
take charge
have money
have status
while they play hard to get
and boys are taught to feel stupid
feel inferior
not as smart as girls
then hormones happen
a boy wants a girl
she plays hard to get
so a boy learns to
talk big
develop a line
take all the risk
hit on women
not take the answer no
look for younger women
go for status jobs
how do the women
handle men like this?
they get more hostile
more aloof
they wear high heels
they diet too much
they hate themselves
they blame the men
the men hate them
it's a vicious circle
it's a vicious circle
so fuck these women
fuck these women
~Constantine, Act One