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Howard Barker

"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."

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"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."

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Howard Barker
"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
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Howard Barker
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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Howard Barker
"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."
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Howard Barker
"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
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"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."

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"Timid people always reek their peevishness on the gentle."

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"Rather than the one who gets angry, the world is more afraid of the one who does not get angry. Why? When anger ceases, grandeur of authority (pratap) arises. Such is the law of nature. Otherwise there would never be any protection for those who don't get angry. Anger provides protection during one's conduct in ignorance of the self."

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"Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins."

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