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I was an accomplice in my own frustration.

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The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

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Tragedy, for me, is not a conflict between right and wrong, but between two different kinds of right.

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The conquistadors and their followers were very rough people, and they were fixated on gold and silver. They were oblivious to the astonishing achievements of the Inca civilisation.

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If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

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Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

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Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.

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Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.

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And in fact, I think one of the best guides to telling you who you are, and I think children use it all the time for this purpose, is fantasy.

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Black Comedy is a farce that is played in the dark, as you know, with the lights full on. It's the Chinese convention of reversing light and dark, and exactly where anybody is at any given moment is the play.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Playwright

Born: May 15th, 1926

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