"Any play that makes an audience think out of the box, that makes connections to life and names our pain and by doing so makes our pain subject to thinking and the process of understanding, is doing something inherently political. By promoting understanding, by putting experience in context, by making connections between the normal and the rational, theatre is an act of anti-terrorism. It stimulates courage and a survival spirit. In that sense of political, there are a lot of serious plays doing their work in the world."

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Source : "Questions for John Lahr" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

John Lahr

#Pain Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes

“I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.”
“The philosopher will ask himself ... if the criticism we are now suggesting is not the philosophy which presses to the limit that criticism of false gods which Christianity has introduced into our history.”
“I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.”
“As the Internet breaks down the last justifications for a professional class of politicians, it also builds up the tools for replacing them.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.188, The New Press
“Sex is emotion in motion.”
“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.”

Source : "The Black Prism". Book by Brent Weeks, August 25, 2010.
“When in some communities selling drugs is so lucrative that that's a pretty big enticement that we have to break down. Part of that is by making opportunities and paying decent wages.”
“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.”

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