David Hare Quotes

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• Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
• Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.
• To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
• Children always turn to the light.
• Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
• Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.
• Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.
• The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.
• No one but a fool is always right.
• An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.
• The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why,…
• In oratory the will must predominate.
• The most important playwright's gift is to hit your time and speak to your time.
• . . . it is true that language and forward movement in the cinema are jolly hard to reconcile. It's a very, very, difficult thing…
• As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.
• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm…
• Obviously VIA DOLOROSA is completely artificial. It is as highly wrought as any of my plays. But basically all the artifice is to disguise itself…
• The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
• The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
• Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

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