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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
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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
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London
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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Law and order is one of the steps taken to maintain injustice.
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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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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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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.
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The one overall structure in my plays is language
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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves
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The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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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.
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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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