Eric Bentley quotes
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“Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.”
-- Eric BentleySource : New Republic 29 Dec. 1952
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“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
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“If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.”
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“Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people.’”
-- Eric BentleySource : Eric Bentley (2008). “Bentley on Brecht”, p.200, Northwestern University Press
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“A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.”
-- Eric BentleySource : Eric Bentley (1953). “In search of theater”
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“Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.”
-- Eric BentleySource : Eric Bentley (1986). “The Pirandello Commentaries”, p.9, Northwestern University Press
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“Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.”
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“Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (2010). “When God Steps In: Divine Resources for Life's Situations”, p.4, Moody Publishers
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.”
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“It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
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