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Letter "T" » The Theatre
«The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything -- gestures, sounds, words, screams, light, darkness -- rediscovers itself at precisely the point where the mind requires a language to express its manifestations. To break through language in order to touch life is to create or recreate the theatre.»
Author: Antonin Artaud
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«The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.»
Author: David Hare
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«Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it.»
Author: Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky
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«You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained. I don?t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction...I can get all that at home.»
Author: Peter Cook
(Actor, Comedian)
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drug addiction, entertained, sodomy, theatre, The Theatre
«The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.»
Author: Sarah Bernhardt
(Actress)
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Truth
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«The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''»
Author: Thornton Wilder
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«The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.»
Author: George Santayana
(Humanist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambezi.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
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