The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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The number of elements that have to go into a hit would break a computer down. the right season for that play, the right historical moment, the right tonality.
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He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
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You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.
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