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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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Edward Bond
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: July 18
Librettist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
London
England
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Democracy
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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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The one overall structure in my plays is language
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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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What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion.
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world
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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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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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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all
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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.
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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice
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You have to learn the language of Hamlet.
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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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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama
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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.
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