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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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"Macy: "In Truth, I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.Wes: "How do you win? he askedMacy: "That, I said, "is such a boy question."
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"Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it."
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"Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible."
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"Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say."
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"Sometimes dead is better."
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"A false potential can dress itself up as attractive ideas."
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
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"Truth does not sit in a cave and hide like a lie. It wanders around proudly and roars loudly like a lion."
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
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"The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."
People
"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
People
"All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism."
Society
"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
Truth
"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
Change
"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."
Time
"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
Unconscious
"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
Ideas
"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
Being
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