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"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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"To operate in the serpent dimension is to reject laws of the kingdom."
"You would hate people if you were like me. If you weren't wanted."
"What business had I to think of one that never thought of me?"
"If you'd rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won't hate you for more than a day. Maybe two."
"Everything is a rejection of you, not your product, or your script, or a cosmetic. It's you."
"I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."
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"I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre."
"When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it."
"We are suffocated by writers who want to enlighten us with their truths. For me, the theatre is beautiful because it is a secret, and secrets seduce us, we all want to share secrets."
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
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