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"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
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"All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer."
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"PU'RIST: one superstitiously nice in the use of words."
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"Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories."
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"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
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"Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them."
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"Words are clothes that thoughts wear."
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"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
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"A word is not filling in the gaps, but the fertilization of silence."
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"Occasionally, merely for the pleasure of being cruel, we put unoffending Frenchmen on the rack with questions framed in the incomprehensible jargon of their native language, and while they writhed, we impaled them, we peppered them, we scarified them, with their own vile verbs and participles."
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"He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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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."
Time
"Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human."
Unconscious
"What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being."
Being
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment."
Language
"At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive."
Theatre
"I think there is no world without theatre."
Theatre
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
Opinion
"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
Society
"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
Drama
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