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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

~ Edward Bond

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Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society.

~ Edward Bond

Art Close Happen Know Only Our Put Reality Scrutiny Society Stage Therefore Things Those

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At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

~ Edward Bond

Century Does Theatre Turn

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Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.

~ Edward Bond

Auschwitz Cannot Occur Place Tragedy Which

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But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

~ Edward Bond

Change Good World

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Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.

~ Edward Bond

Because Decided Fifteen Out Plays Production Time Walked Waste Waste Of Time Years Years Ago

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First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

~ Edward Bond

Animals Devil First Need Now People Theatre Then

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Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

~ Edward Bond

Auschwitz Become Chair Get Humanity Product You

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I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

~ Edward Bond

Before Explore Further Job Moment Our Political Propaganda Provide Simplistic Situation Theatre Think Understand Will Would Would-Be

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I think there is no world without theatre.

~ Edward Bond

I Think Theatre Think Without World

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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

~ Edward Bond

Because Going I Write Mad Make Making Me Money Myself Plays Rational Stop Way World Write

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I'm interested in the real world.

~ Edward Bond

Interested Real Real World The Real World World

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I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

~ Edward Bond

Imaginary Imaginary World Interested Not Interested World

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If you engage people on a vital, important level, they will respond.

~ Edward Bond

Engage Important Level People Respond Vital Will You

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

~ Edward Bond

End I Think In The End Justice Only Subject Theatre Think

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In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

~ Edward Bond

Always Became Collective Experience Goodness In The Past Past Then

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

~ Edward Bond

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

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

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

Able Down Play Sit Wonderful Write

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