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1667 Playwright Quotes

And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

One Major Keep Cross
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
Traveling Desire Cross Boundaries
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

Intimate Gold Explore Describe
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The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

Most Difficult Part Process
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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The weapon of suicide bombing is so desperate that you aren't even left with the possibility of taking revenge or punishing anyone; the terrorist is killed along with his victims, his blood mixing wit

Weapon Suicide Revenge Victim
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Think Claim Part Other
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And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so.

Major Question Keep Permission
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

Man You Random Honor
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We're living with the Arabs; we have to understand them... Through knowing the Arabs, you know yourself better.

Living Through Yourself Better
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Yourself Life About Creating
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Life is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.

Tragedy Life Feel Think
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If it weren't for the fact that all of us are slightly abnormal there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.

Fact Separate Point Abnormal
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Romance is the sweetening of the soul With fragrance offered by the stricken heart.

Soul Heart Romance Offered
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But theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms.

Theater Nature Text Images
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Only 4 sets of people can vote for the PDP: (1) those who are intellectually blind; (2) those who are blinded by ethnicity; (3) those who are blinded by corruption and therefore afraid of the unknown, should power change hands; and finally (4) those who are suffering from a combination of the above terminal sicknesses.

People PDP Vote Corruption
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A tiger does not shout its tigritude, it acts.
Tiger Shout Tigritude Acts
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.

Audience Dynamic Quality Environment
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us all To the great Origin. If I lose my way. The trailing cord will bring me to the roots.

Man Womb Mother Denies
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact; can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.

Truth Antithesis Antagonism Society
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I am a glutton for tranquility.
Glutton Tranquility
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Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness.

Colonialism Bred Innate Imperial
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.

Believe Learning Best Process
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Power Domination Control Selective
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

Ultimate Lesson Just Write
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.

Writer Thing Methodical You
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The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

Together Living Admired Conception
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To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Speak Fool Wise Man
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness.

Sun Mouth Leap Darkness
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People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.

People Light Dark Quickly
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I eat merely to put food out of my mind.

Eat Food Mind Put
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There is a greater prison than Kuje; it is the conscience of men. A President who was sponsored with stolen money by a thief, is in a greater prison with the thief. And it shall manifest soon

Greater Prison Kuje Conscience
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It's often said that look at the message and not the messenger, but there are times when you can only decipher the message by looking at the messenger.

Message Often Looking Times
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The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Crowded Fruition Happy Hours
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Any Bait Covers Hook
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
Copy Improve Model Other
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Best Best Way Enemy Field
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Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Absurdity Champion Defend Every
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject

Abject Between Commerce Disinterested
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They say women and music should never be dated.

Dated Music Never Say
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Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall.

Consists Fall Getting Just
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Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

Each Friendship Incompatible Other
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If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

Fishes Like Little Make
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The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.

Audience Best Best Way Laugh
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Better Could Critic How
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Ceremonies Country Different Every
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The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

Always Company End Feel
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Bad How Journey Life
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