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“I think there is no world without theatre.”
-- Edward Bond
#Thinking #Theatre #Literature
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“If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond”
-- Edward Bond
#People #Important #Levels
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“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”
-- Edward Bond
#Writing #Negativity #Shapes
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“In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice”
-- Edward Bond
#Thinking #Justice #Theatre
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“I'm not interested in an imaginary world”
-- Edward Bond
#World #Not Interested #Imaginary
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“The one overall structure in my plays is language”
-- Edward Bond
#Play #Language #Structure
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“The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks”
-- Edward Bond
#Greek #Theatre
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“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human”
-- Edward Bond
#Animal #Conscious #Unconscious
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“It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play”
-- Edward Bond
#Writing #Play #Down And
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“It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion”
-- Edward Bond
#Views #Play #Insulting
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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”
-- Edward Bond
#Mean #Ideas #Democracy
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“The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.”
-- Edward Bond
#Punishment #Empires #Bores
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“We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.”
-- Edward Bond
#Insecurity #Desert #May
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“What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.”
-- Edward Bond
#Greek #Literature #Able
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“What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.”
-- Edward Bond
#Play #Trying #Literature
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“At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.”
-- Edward Bond
#Theatre #Doe #Literature
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“As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.”
-- Edward Bond
#Lasts #Hours #Stage
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“Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.”
-- Edward Bond
#Art #Expression #World
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“Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.”
-- Edward Bond
#Men #Mad #Awkward
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“We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.”
-- Edward Bond
#People #Scar #Hiroshima
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“When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.”
-- Edward Bond
#Differences #People #Pits
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“It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves”
-- Edward Bond
#Ignorant
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“Shakespeare has no answers for us at all”
-- Edward Bond
#Answers
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“Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.”
-- Edward Bond
#Taken #Order #Law
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“All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.”
-- Edward Bond
#Community #Competition #Ends
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“Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.”
-- Edward Bond
#Art #Reality #Our Society
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“Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.”
-- Edward Bond
#Drama #Greek #Done
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“In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.”
-- Edward Bond
#Past #Goodness #Collectives
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“Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs.”
-- Edward Bond
#Play #Violence #Affair
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“Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism.”
-- Edward Bond
#Democracy #Violence #Structure
