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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."
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"They were obviously headstones of graves, though the graves themselves no longer existed as either mounds or depressions; the years had leveled all. Scattered here and there, more massive blocks showed where some pompous or ambitious monument had once flung its feeble defiance at oblivion."

"There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself."
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"I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it."

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

"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."

"It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas."
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