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Edward Bond Quotes

1934–2024 England

Edward Bond (18 July 1934 – 3 March 2024) was an English playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, librettist and poet.

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Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad.

Lear (1972)

As Shakespeare himself knew, the peace, the reconciliation that he created on the stage would not last an hour on the street.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Programme note for We Come to the River (1976)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Bond (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.