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Kissing girls is not like science, nor is it like sport. It is the third thing when you thought there were only two.
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To say that it is without pace, point, focus, interest, drama, wit or originality is to say simply that it does not happen to be my cup of tea.
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You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
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Now for a handful of guilders I happen to have a private and uncut performance of the rape of the Sabine Women - or rather woman, or rather Alfred -Get your skirt on Alfred!
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I must stop compromising my plays with this whiff of social application. They must be entirely untouched by any suspicion of usefulness.
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There must have been a time, in the beginning, when we could have said – no. But somehow we missed it. Oh well, we'll know better next time.
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As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
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What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.
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I believe in mess, tears, pain, self-abasement, loss of self-respect, nakedness. Not caring doesn’t seem much different from not loving.
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You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist.
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Traitors hoist by their own petard?--or victims of the gods?--we shall never know!
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THOMASINA: But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
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The natural condition is one of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster. strangely enough it all works out in the end... it's a mystery.
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...and for the last three minutes on the wind of a windless day I have heard the sound of drums and flute...
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If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the chemistry of the moral matrix, then theater has a longer half-life.
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(Words) deserve respect. Get the right ones in the right order, and you can nudge the world a little.
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We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.
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ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?
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You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.
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GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear
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Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.
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We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
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Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
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I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus.
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VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet? BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant.
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I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
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We keep to our usual stuff, more or less, only inside out. We do on stage the things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit being an entrance somewhere else.
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The universe is deterministic all right, just like Newton said, I mean it's trying to be, but the only thing going wrong is people fancying people who aren't supposed to be in that part of the plan.
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Let me get it straight. Your father was king. You were his only son. Your father dies. You are of age. Your uncle becomes king." "Yes." "Unorthodox.
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
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A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
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