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Edward Bond

"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."

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"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."

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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."

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"Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life."

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"Life is defined by time and seasons."

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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."

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"Past, I am letting you go. Future, I will see you tomorrow. Present, I love you, live in you, celebrate you, and will never let you go."

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"The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it."

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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."

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"You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future."

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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

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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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"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."
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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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"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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"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
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"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done."
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"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
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"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
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"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."
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"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
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