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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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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
"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."
Job
"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
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