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"I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is something wrong."
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"Here we are, we're alone in the universe, there's no God, it just seems that it all began by something as simple as sunlight striking on a piece of rock. And here we are. We've only got ourselves. Somehow, we've just got to make a go of it. We've only ourselves."
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"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."
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"Heroes, whatever high ideas we may have of them, are mortal and not divine. We are all as God made us and many of us much worse."
"Go on - but don't think you can kill my confidence. I've had experts doing it for years."
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