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In Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" Mr. Lies takes Harper to Antarctica. When she cannot contain her excitement, he says:

"This is a retreat, a vacuum, its virtue is that it lacks everything; deep-freeze for feelings. You can be numb and safe here, that’s what you came for. Respect the delicate ecology of your _____."
a. insanity
b. delusions
c. misery
d. madness
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Tony Kushner

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July 16, 1956

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New York, New York, The United States

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Literature & Fiction

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Tony Kushner is an award-winning American playwright most famous for his play Angels in America, for which he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. He is also co-author, along with Eric Roth, of the screenplay of the 2005 film Munich, which was directed by Steven Spielberg and earned Kushner (along with Roth) an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay.

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avg rating: 4.32 | 5,031 ratings | 275 reviews | 38 distinct works | 15 fans

	Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.39 — 1,713 ratings — published 1992 4 editions	my rating:
	Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: Part One: Millennium Approaches Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.38 — 1,388 ratings — published 1992 6 editions	my rating:
	Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.32 — 1,124 ratings — published 1992 4 editions	my rating:
	Homebody/Kabul by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.01 — 150 ratings — published 2003 5 editions	my rating:
	A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner avg rating 3.95 — 141 ratings — published 1994 2 editions	my rating:
	Brundibar by Tony Kushner, Maurice Sendak avg rating 4.07 — 61 ratings — published 2003 4 editions	my rating:
	Caroline, or Change by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.35 — 57 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue: Essays, A Play, Two Poems and a Prayer by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.20 — 51 ratings — published 1995 3 editions	my rating:
	Slavs!: Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness by Tony Kushner avg rating 3.72 — 29 ratings — published 1996 2 editions	my rating:
	Illusion by Tony Kushner avg rating 4.12 — 24 ratings — published 2003	my rating:

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quotes by Tony Kushner

"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 (Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches)

tags: freedom, liberation

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"Harper: In your experience of the world. How do people change?

Mormon Mother: Well it has something to do with God so it's not very nice.

God splits the skin with a jagged thumbnail from throat to belly and then plunges a huge filthy hand in, he grabs hold of your bloody tubes and they slip to evade his grasp but he squeezes hard, he insists, he pulls and pulls till all your innards are yanked out and the pain! We can't even talk about that. And then he stuffs them back, dirty, tangled and torn. It's up to you to do the stitching.

Harper: And then up you get. And walk around.

Mormon Mother: Just mangled guts pretending.

Harper: That's how people change. "
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika)

tags: change, condition, god, human

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"I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word 'free' to a note so high nobody can reach it. That was deliberate. Nothing on earth sounds less like freedom to me. You come to room 1013 over at the hospital, I'll show you America. Terminal, crazy and mean. I live in America, that’s hard enough, I don’t have to love it. You do that. Everybody’s got to love something."
— Tony Kushner (Angels in America: Parts One and Two)

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