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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
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"Oh, this is the most TRAGICAL thing that ever happened to me!"
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"In fact-Dr. Sheppard!"
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"You men have none of you any hearts.''If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."
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"You let me handle Marius," I said. "Now, you didn't come without you dagger.""No, I did not," he said, lifting his cloak to reveal it, "And with your permission I would like to plunge it through my heart now so I will most assuredly stone-cold dead before the Master of this house arrives home to find you runnning rampant in his garden!""Permission denied."
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"Most drama in our lives is really rather squalid."
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"Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all."
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"I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London."
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"We participate in tragedy. At comedy we only look."
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"And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!"
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"Enough,' said Mercedes, 'enough Edmond! Believe me that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you. And had she crossed your path, and you had crushed her like a frail glass, still, Edmond, still she must have admired you! Like the gulf between me and the past, there is an abyss between you, Edmond, and the rest of mankind; and I tell you freely, that the comparison I drew between you and other men will be one of my greatest tortures. No! there is nothing in the world to resemble you in worth and goodness!"
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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."
Society
"I'm interested in the real world."
World
"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
Language
"Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair."
Humanity
"I'm not interested in an imaginary world."
World
"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
Play
"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."
Time
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
Opinion
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
Language
"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
People
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