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Edward Bond

"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

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"We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history."

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"The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever."

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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."

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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."

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

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"The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century."

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"The past is not a package one can lay away."

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"The double-crossed, might-have-been history of my country is not the study of what actually took place here: it's the study of historians' studies. . . .Memories are their own descendants masquerading as the ancestors of the present."

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Amber Hurdle

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

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"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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"Super-eruption of mount Toba, 76,000 years ago had wiped out a previous great civilization on earth."

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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
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"Shakespeare has no answers for us at all."
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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."
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"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage."
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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's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
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"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion."
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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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"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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"I think there is no world without theatre."
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