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> [My play is the ultimate expression of my feeling of the twilight of Western civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/my-play-is-the-ultimate-expression-of-my-feeling-of-the-twilight-of/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

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## More by Richard Foreman

> [You know, actually, I went to Yale because I wanted to stay out of the army.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/you-know-actually-i-went-to-yale-because-i-wanted-to-stay-out-of-the/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [I see within us all (myself included) the replacement of complex inner density with a new kind of self—evolving under the pressure of information…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/i-see-within-us-all-myself-included-the-replacement-of-complex-inner/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/one-does-not-devote-one-s-life-in-art-to-shock-an-audience/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/i-realized-that-i-had-to-be-honest-about-where-i-was-where-i-was/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [I was enchanted by the escape into that meticulous world that seemed real yet not... well, it seemed not real, but very detailed and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/i-was-enchanted-by-the-escape-into-that-meticulous-world-that-seemed/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/now-when-i-started-my-theater-the-modus-operandi-was-having-the/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/from-that-time-through-the-time-i-was-a-new-dramatist-when-i-was/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/because-even-at-the-age-of-fifteen-i-used-to-go-see-all-the-broadway/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [What really happened was one day I decided to write a new kind of play.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/what-really-happened-was-one-day-i-decided-to-write-a-new-kind-of-play/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/quite-the-opposite-i-might-fall-on-my-face-but-i-feel-born-again/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [I come from a tradition of Western culture, in which the ideal (my ideal) was the complex, dense, and 'cathedral-like' structure of the highly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/i-come-from-a-tradition-of-western-culture-in-which-the-ideal-my/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [There is no work of art that has ever been made that is absolutely truthful about life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/there-is-no-work-of-art-that-has-ever-been-made-that-is-absolutely/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [As I told you, from the time I was fifteen, I thought the theater was too much involved with actors trying to make the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/as-i-told-you-from-the-time-i-was-fifteen-i-thought-the-theater-was/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [All the dialogue on tape, and we'd play the tape in performance. Then I thought it'd be interesting if the actor's repeated what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/all-the-dialogue-on-tape-and-we-d-play-the-tape-in-performance-then-i/)

[Richard Foreman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-foreman/)

> [It's true, I don't like the real world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-foreman/it-s-true-i-don-t-like-the-real-world/)

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