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Quotes by Playwright
"For men, as a rule, love is but an episode which takes place among the other affairs of the day, and the emphasis laid on it in novels gives it an importance which is untrue to life. There are few men to whom it is the most important thing in the world, and they are not the very interesting ones; even women, with whom the subject is of paramount interest, have a contempt for them."
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"He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods."
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"The revolution is like a vessel filled with the pulsating heartbeat of millions of working people."
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"You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion."
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"A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you."
10
"The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain."
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"We all come from our own little planets. That's why we're all different. That's what makes life interesting."
Life,
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"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."
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"Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better."
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"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics."
9
"In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect."
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"I do not fight against men, but against the system that is sexist."
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"She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt."
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"And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat."
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"When we are not sure we are alive."
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"Show business offers more solid promises than Catholicism."
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"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven't yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle."
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"To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool."
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"Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it."
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"A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."
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"That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness, someone else always suffers for them."
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"I've been trying to figure out for at least the last 10 years how to force myself into something more risky."
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"Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound."
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"We've managed to keep a spirit of fun, I guess, of urban satire and finding new and odd interesting angles to the ways of life to put on the stage."
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"You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy."
9
"What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do."
9
"The whole point of a sacrifice is that you give up something you never really wanted in the first place. People are doing it around you all the time. They give up their careers, say - or their beliefs - or sex."
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"I'm a writer. The more I act, the more resistance I have to it. If you accept work in a movie, you accept to be entrapped for a certain part of time, but you know you're getting out. I'm also earning enough to keep my horses, buying some time to write."
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"Perhaps after all she put me in her rectum. A matter of complete indifference to me, I needn't tell you. But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes. Have I never known true love, after all?"
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"I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on."
9
"The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old."
9
"I know some things when I start. I know, let's say, that the play is going to be a 1970s or a 1930s play, and it's going to be about a piano, but that's it. I slowly discover who the characters are as I go along."
Play,
9
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes."
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"He had not even the self-complacency that enables stupid people to accept their mediocrity with unction, he had on the contrary an engaging modesty."
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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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"Spend the years of learning squanderingCourage for the years of wanderingThrough a world politely turningFrom the loutishness of learning."
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"There are two kinds of marriages - where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband."
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"The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste."
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"To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was."
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"He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates."
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"I can't go on, I'll go on."
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"Take care of him. And make him feel important. And if you can do that, you'll have a happy and wonderful marriage. Like two out of every ten couples."
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