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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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"Severing our young and fragile friendship was a sad ordeal, but sadder still was the fact that this friend found it so difficult to respond to my immediate need, unlike a dreamed boy who always afforded me easy comfort. I couldn't understand what was so hard about reaching out to hug someone. But judging by Gregory's uncomfortable conduct I had to assume it was an honest trial."
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"Don't let anyone, or any rejection, keep you from what you want."
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"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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"They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathise with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing, incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing the germs of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgment. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless-Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained..."
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"If they want to you out... they will find always a reason for that."
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"The world of romance and business works on this principle - You may be rejected several times, but not everyone will reject you."
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"Lack of knowledge leads to rejection by God."
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"The rejection of knowledge (ignorance) attracts a reaction from God."
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"If you'd rather not go with me, I will completely understand and won't hate you for more than a day. Maybe two."
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"I don't hate you.. I just don't like that you exist."
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"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."
Secrets
"I never 'say' anything in my work. I invent a world. Let others decide what is being 'said'."
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"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."
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"I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly."
Rejection
"I have plenty of political views and plenty of social and personal prejudices. I do not, however, value them."
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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."
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