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

Being, Question, Shakespeare

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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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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

George Orwell, British Author

Being,

"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Mind, State

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

Being, Content, Living

"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

Beth Henley, American Playwright

Being,

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Being, Motives, Vanity

"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

Henry Winkler, American Actor

Being, First, Responsibility

"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

Lee Van Cleef, American Actor

Being, Eyes

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Feeling, Words

"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

Greta Scacchi, Italian Actress

Being, Now, Reputation

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

Daniel Okrent, American Editor

Being, Talking

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

People

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."

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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."

Art

"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."

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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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"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."

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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"Having had a reputation for being sexy is a great prop to lean on now."

"I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about."

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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."

"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur."

"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."

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

"If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond."

"Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society."

"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."

"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."

"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice."

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."