Edward Bond quotes - page 2

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. (Edward Bond)
You have to learn the language of Hamlet. View quote
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Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can. View quote
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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. View quote
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The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage. View quote
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I'm interested in the real world. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves. View quote
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Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair. View quote
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The theatre, our theatre, comes from the Greeks. (Edward Bond)
It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play. View quote
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The one overall structure in my plays is language. View quote
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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human. View quote
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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. View quote
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. View quote
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I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. People who do not want writers to write about violence want to stop them writing about us and our time. It would be immoral not to write about violence. View quote
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Whatever the economy needs to maintain itself, the government will do it. View quote
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You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama. View quote
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I'm not interested in an imaginary world. View quote
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