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Playwrights"Theatre is a form of understanding; it ought to and can likewise be a way of changing culture." This is among the numerous motivating quotes by prominent playwright August Wilson, who is known for his jobs that discover the African-American experience. Wilson's plays have been performed on Broadway and also worldwide, and his words have ended up being a resource of motivation for numerous. Via his works, Wilson has actually revealed us the power of theater to produce social change as well as to produce a far better world. His words remind us of the significance of theatre in our lives and also the potential it has to make a distinction.
Small: I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me - Terence
Terence
"I am a man, I consider nothing that is human alien to me"
Terence, Playwright
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Small: The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed - Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
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Small: It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour - W. Somerset Mau
W. Somerset Maugham
"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Man must shape his tools lest they shape him - Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
"Man must shape his tools lest they shape him"
Arthur Miller, Playwright
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Small: Though lust do masque in neer so strange disguise shes oft found witty, but is never wise - John Webster
John Webster
"Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise"
John Webster, Playwright
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Small: Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics - Dario Fo
Dario Fo
"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"
Dario Fo, Playwright
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Small: You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation - W. Somer
W. Somerset Maugham
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely - W. Somerset Maugh
W. Somerset Maugham
"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: Extreme law is often extreme injustice - Terence
Terence
"Extreme law is often extreme injustice"
Terence, Playwright
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Small: Their silence is praise enough - Terence
Terence
"Their silence is praise enough"
Terence, Playwright
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Small: Everything matters. Time is precious - Jessica Hagedorn
"Everything matters. Time is precious"
Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright
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Small: But I think theres a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomachs growling, Im going to
"But I think there's a genuine joy, too, a sense that no matter what, even if my stomach's growling, I'm going to dance. That's what I want to leave people with at the end of the play. After all this, people still know how to live"
Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright
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Small: Life is not simple, and people cant be boxed into being either heroes or villains - Jessica Hagedorn
"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains"
Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright
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Small: A suicide kills two people, Maggie, thats what its for! - Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller
"A suicide kills two people, Maggie, that's what it's for!"
Arthur Miller, Playwright
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Small: I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness - Beth Henley
Beth Henley
"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness"
Beth Henley, Playwright
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Small: But heres the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a
Beth Henley
"But here's the thing: what you do as a screenwriter is you sell your copyright. As a novelist, as a poet, as a playwright, you maintain your copyright"
Beth Henley, Playwright
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Small: In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice - Edward Bond
Edward Bond
"In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice"
Edward Bond, Playwright
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Small: I wrote my first play when I was eight - Pam Gems
"I wrote my first play when I was eight"
Pam Gems, Playwright
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Small: It is always in season for old men to learn - Aeschylus
Aeschylus
"It is always in season for old men to learn"
Aeschylus, Playwright
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Small: I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would fo
"I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow"
Laurence Housman, Playwright
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Small: The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh ove
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts"
Derek Walcott, Playwright
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Small: He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons - Carlo Goldoni
Carlo Goldoni
"He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons"
Carlo Goldoni, Playwright
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Small: Thats how it is on this bitch of an earth - Samuel Beckett
"That's how it is on this bitch of an earth"
Samuel Beckett, Playwright
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Small: Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life - Plautus
Plautus
"Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life"
Plautus, Playwright
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Small: The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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Small: The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit - W. Somerset Maugham
W. Somerset Maugham
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit"
W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright
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