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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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Akiroq Brost

"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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Akiroq Brost

"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

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Akiroq Brost

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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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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"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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"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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"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised."
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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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"The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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