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Edward Bond
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
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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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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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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
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We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins.
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
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I'm interested in the real world.
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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