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Quote by Edward Bond
I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about man

I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future. – Edward Bond

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All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. Its called competition. And competition is antagonism. – Edward Bond

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Society
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Edward Bond
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Art is the close scrutiny of reality and therefore I put on the stage only those things that I know happen in our society. – Edward Bond

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Society
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The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. – Edward Bond

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Other Quotes from
Violence
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. – Isaac Asimov

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Violence

In violence we forget who we are. – Mary McCarthy

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Violence

Who has not hoped
To outrage an enemys dignity?
Who has not been swept
By the wish to hurt?
And who has not thought that the impersonal world
Deserves no better than to be destroyed
By one fabulous sign of his displeasure? – Jacob Bronowski

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Violence

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. – John Frederick Boyes

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Violence

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The American attitude is Were the best. Thats why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. – Andrew Bogut

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Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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