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Quote by Denis Diderot
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous

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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If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you cant deny a kind of respect for the great criminal. – Denis Diderot

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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music. – Denis Diderot

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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out ones acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet ones friends, and show that ones alive. – Fanny Burney

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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 primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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Its one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work — the night watchman. – Tallulah Bankhead

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