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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
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"There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply."

"I want to 'think' that I have all the answers. But if I 'think', I soon realize that what I thought to be answers were guesses. And if I 'think' yet again, I begin to realize that since God has all the answers He never hands me a guess."

"Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."

"A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms."

"It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and then to demand whole or categorical answers as it were."
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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."

"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."

"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."

"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."

"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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