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I'm interested in the real world.

Edward Bond

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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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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.
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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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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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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The one overall structure in my plays is language
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.
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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
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
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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.
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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