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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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"Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies."

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

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

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

"All choice of words is slang. It marks a class. "There is correct English: that is not slang. "I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
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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."

"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."

"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."

"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."

"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."
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