"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."

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"Hey, any idea why Australians speak something that sounds deceptively like English but isn't? I mean, I'm trying to figure out why I can't seem to converse with another human being who speaks the same language as I do."

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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."

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"Thou shalt not use the 140 characters limit as an excuse for bad grammar and/or incorrect spelling."

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"But language is wine upon his lips."

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"A cliche is everything you've ever heard of."

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"A lexicographer a writer of dictionaries a harmless drudge."

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"The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar."

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"Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."

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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."

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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."

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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."

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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."

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"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."

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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."

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"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."

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"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."

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"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."

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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."

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