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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"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"At the turn of the century, theatre does not have to be prescriptive"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"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"
Edward Bond, Playwright
"We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"The most useless are those who never change through the years"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"The best place a person can die, is where they die for others"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Strength, instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Nothing is really work, unless you would rather be doing something else"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Life is a long lesson in humility"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"I am not young enough to know everything"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies', there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
"Always be a little kinder than necessary"
James M. Barrie, Playwright
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