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Edward Bond

"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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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."
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"The one overall structure in my plays is language."
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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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"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
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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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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
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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."
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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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