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But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
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My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.
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One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.
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I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.
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There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.
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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
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The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist.
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And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.
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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom.
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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
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Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
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One thing I can tell you is this, that I am not a methodical writer.
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Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done.
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There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.
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