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In the end I think theatre has only one subject: justice. ↗

— Edward Bond

#i #i think #in the end #justice #only

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

— Edward Bond

#me #ourselves #profoundly #seems

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man. They are sluggish, yet more wayward, and never without a melancholy tinge. Sights and impressions which others brush aside with a glance, a light comment, a smile, occupy him more than their due; they sink silently in, they take on meaning, they become experience, emotion, adventure. Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#social-anxiety #solitude #beauty

Shakespeare has no answers for us at all. ↗

— Edward Bond

#shakespeare #us

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment. ↗

— Edward Bond

#acquired #bores #empire #english #punishment

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

— Edward Bond

#greeks #said #their #things #tragedies

The one overall structure in my plays is language. ↗

— Edward Bond

#overall #plays #structure

Violence is never a solution in my plays, just as ultimately violence is never a solution in human affairs. ↗

— Edward Bond

#human #human affairs #just #never #plays

As we have heard, the end of al-Zarqawi is a significant blow to al-Qaida operations in Iraq. It is another clear indication of the progress we are making. ↗

— Kit Bond

#blow #clear #end #heard #indication

The best interpreter of the law is custom. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#custom #interpreter #law