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The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Com

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. – Enid Bagnold

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If a dog doesnt put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesnt happen you are only keeping an animal. – Enid Bagnold

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When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. – Enid Bagnold

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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. – Enid Bagnold

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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

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The theater, which is in no thing, but makes use of everything – Antonin Artaud

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Theater

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly. – Howard Barker

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The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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