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It seems to me that we are profoundly ignorant of ourselves.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Ignorant Me Ourselves Profoundly Seems

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It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Ask His Insulting Opinion Play View

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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Assumed Containing Democracy Genes Ideas Means Violence

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It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Able Down Play Sit Wonderful Write

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Now, drama is quite useful at helping us to understand what our position is and, conversely, we might then understand why our theatre is being destroyed.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Being Destroyed Drama Helping Might Now Our Position Quite Theatre Then Understand Us Useful Why

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Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Animal Conscious Even Human More Often Our Than Unconscious

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Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Debate Done Drama Goodness Greek Had Itself Just Once Organise Religion Society

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Shakespeare has no answers for us at all.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Answers Shakespeare Us

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The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Extreme Greeks Said Things Tragedies Very

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The one overall structure in my plays is language.

~Edward Bond

Topics: Language Overall Plays Structure

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: July 18th, 1934

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