Arthur M. Jolly

Arthur M. Jolly (born 1969) is an American screenwriter and playwright.

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Every Battle, Every War (2007)

• Every battle, every war - is fought for things worth dying for.
  • Lieutenant

• There will be absolutely no pie fighting!
  • Lieutenant

• Killing a human being - even a German one - is not to be enterprised lightly. To give one's life in the service of your country is noble. To get shot for pastry isn't.
  • Lieutenant

Past Curfew (2009)

• You know they're all gay, right? ... Male strippers. Fruity as cake. Queer as a cardinal.
  • Sarah, Act I, Scene 2

• Get me a drink, or I'll tell you I love you. I'll wake you up in an hour or two, crooning, all sloppy and maudlin, tell you I love you really. You'd like that, right? Hearing Momma tell you she loves you? Isn't that what you want, deep inside?
  • Sarah, Act I, Scene 4

• Go outside to watch the pigs flapping from tree to tree.
  • Sarah, Act II, Scene 1
  • This is a response to Kirstie's question: What would you do if I got in the car right now?

A Gulag Mouse (2010)

• The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.
  • Masha, Act I, Scene 2

• Her father was a fisherman, with a beard that tasted of salt, and fingers that smelled like the sea.
  • Masha, Act II, Scene 1

• Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.
  • Lubov, Act II, Scene 1

• The answer is what the answer always is, that we are animals, that at the end we turn on each other, tearing each other apart. To survive. Throw Lubov to the men in the guard shack like a scrap of meat to a pack of wolves... why not, it is for survival. Fight, kill each other, over the warmth of the stove? Of course - it is survival. I refuse to survive. But I will live.
  • Anastasia, Act II, Scene 1

Interviews and profiles

• If it was easy, everyone would do it rather than going around telling you their ideas and saying how they could be a writer if they had the time.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, interview with Write On Online (2009)

• I adore [my son]. I wouldn't trade him in for a Pulitzer - unless someone actually offered that as an option.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, in The Truffle Theatre Company' (2011)

• People who are intolerant, categorize and over-react... should all be dragged against a wall and shot.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, in The Questionnaire (2010)

• Writing is nothing less than thought transference, the ability to send one's ideas out into the world, beyond time and distance, taken at the value of the words, unbound from the speaker.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, interview with Purple Pencil Adventures (2010)

• A little is fine, but the minute you start believing that you’ve picked the only right one out of the 4,200 or so on offer, you need to get a grip on yourself. Once you start thinking that it’s okay to hate someone that chose one of the 4,199 others... snap out of it.
  • Arthur M. Jolly, in The Questionnaire (2010)
  • This is in reference to religion and religious zeal.

External links

• Arthur M. Jolly at IMDb
• Arthur M. Jolly bio