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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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"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."
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"Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
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"Quit aspiring and dreaming and start being."
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"Stop aspiring and start being. The world needs you!"
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"I have the handicap of being born with a special language to which I alone have the key."
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"To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present."
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"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"Your unstoppable nature is becoming and blooming - you simply, are. Go easy."
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"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
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"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
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"I think there is no world without theatre."
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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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"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur."
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"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it."
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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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"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."
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