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- He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets…
- By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route…
- I regard the theatre as a serious business, one that makes or should make man more human, which is to say, less alone.
- The play is really a kind of nightmare. It ought to flow rapidly and effortlessly from one moment to another. In London, we had difficulty…
- Today, [theatre's] more likely to be consciously not aimed at the public, but at a more sophisticated or educated public. . . . The result…
- My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is an anxiety, or…
- Few occasions are as joyous to small children as funerals, almost better than the big wedding blowouts that take place at night when it's hard…
- They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the…
- Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more.
- The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength…
- I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
- The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say…
- After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
- Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.
- More Weight -Giles Corey-
- Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says.…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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