"The truth has got to appear plausible on the stage"

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Edward Bond

“Love After Love all your life, whom you have ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life.”
“I have redefined the so-called East-West relationship as essentially one of conflict, while it had previously been treated in romantic terms.”

Source : "Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih dies aged 80" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2009.
“God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him.”
“Poverty is abandonment. We have abandoned the poor.”
“... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.”
“I am at war with the obvious.”

Source : William Eggleston, Gunilla Knape, Hasselblad Center (1999). “William Eggleston”
“He walked with long, ungraceful strides, enormous feet adding to the spectacle, and he sat a horse as if leaning into a strong wind.”
“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”

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