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Edward Bond

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

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"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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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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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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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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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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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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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed."
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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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