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Arthur Laurents
Author profile
born
July 14, 1917
in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
died
May 05, 2011
gender
male
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Gypsy
by Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, Jules Styne   4.15 avg rating — 65 ratings
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published
1994
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Mainly on Directing: Gypsy, West Side Story, and Other Musicals
  3.93 avg rating — 45 ratings
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2009
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Original Story by Arthur Laurents: A Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings
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published
2000
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The Way We Were
3.79 avg rating — 24 ratings
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published
1973
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4 editions
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West Side Story
by Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings
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published
1957
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The Turning Point
2.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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published
1977
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Anyone Can Whistle: A Musical Fable
by Arthur Laurents , Stephen Sondheim 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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published
1965
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Home of the Brave.
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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published
1998
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Mainly on Directing
4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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published
2009
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Selected Plays
4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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published
2004
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“Brandon, until this very moment, the world and the people in it have always been dark and incomprehensible to me, and I've tried to clear my way with logic and superior intellect, and you've thrown by own words right back in my face; you've given my words a meaning that I never dreamed of, and you tried to twist them into a cold logical excuse for your ugly murder!
Tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I've ever had, of superior or inferior beings, but I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we're each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society that we live in. By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there [he's referencing the dead body of "David," lying in a trunk in the middle of the room] was inferior and therefore could be killed?
Did you think you were God Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave! I don't know what you thought or what you are, but I know what you've done—YOU'VE MURDERED! You've strangled the life of a fellow human being who could live and love as you never could... and never will again!”
― Arthur Laurents
Tonight you've made me ashamed of every concept I've ever had, of superior or inferior beings, but I thank you for that shame, because now I know that we're each of us a separate human being, Brandon, with the right to live and work and think as individuals, but with an obligation to the society that we live in. By what right do you dare say that there's a superior few to which you belong? By what right did you dare decide that that boy in there [he's referencing the dead body of "David," lying in a trunk in the middle of the room] was inferior and therefore could be killed?
Did you think you were God Brandon? Is that what you thought when you choked the life out of him? Is that what you thought when you served food from his grave! I don't know what you thought or what you are, but I know what you've done—YOU'VE MURDERED! You've strangled the life of a fellow human being who could live and love as you never could... and never will again!”
― Arthur Laurents
