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"My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization."
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"If this is called civilization, then I am afraid humanity is no more civilized than the Tyrannosaurus Rex."
"We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others."
"This grimy fragment of another world, the forerunner of change, of conquest, of trade, of massacres, of blessings....the merry dance of death and trade goes on."
"The first requisite of civilization is that of justice."
"After the monkeys came down from the trees and learned to hurl sharp objects, they had had to move into caves for protection--not only from the big predatory cats but, as they began to lose their monkey fur, from the elements. Eventually, they started transposing their hunting fantasies onto cave walls in the form of pictures, first as an attempt at practical magic and later for the strange, unexpected pleasure they discovered in artistic creation. Time passed. Art came off the walls and turned into ritual. Ritual became religion. Religion spawned science. Science led to big business. And big business, if it continues on its present mindless, voracious trajectory, could land those of us lucky enough to survive its ultimate legacy back into caves again."
"Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization."
"What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea."
"A civilized society is formed when every individual in that society are bound to obey the rules and regulation which is for the benefit of their own society."
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
"Without civilization, we would not turn into animals, but vegetables."
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"As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the audience love them, being over emotional."
"I acted in junior high in the junior high school group, and then when I got into senior high I was, you know, the main actor of the senior high school."
"From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything."
"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
"I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do."
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