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"One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand."
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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."
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"Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion."
"Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation...to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down."
"When the whirlpool of thoughts is going on; that is known as the mind. At that time, the mind is functioning independently. That and the vrutis (tendencies of the chit) have no relationship. The tendencies arise later on, and then they go back and forth."
"There are always a few, Claire, who like being told what to do instead of being required to think. And those are the ones you should fear. That goes equally for humans, I'm afraid. Critical thinking has become a sadly rare skill these days."
"As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it."
"I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out."
"It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world."
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"Your source material is the people you know, not those you don't know, but every character is an extension of the author's own personality."
"I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do."
"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."
"American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties."
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