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"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
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"I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past."
"I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored."
"One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present."
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible."
"If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were. You just have to look up."
"I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it."
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"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past."
"Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist."
"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
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