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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.

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Every authentic poem contributes to the labour of poetry… to bring together what life has separated or violence has torn apart.
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me it’s something that theatre can do, but it’s rare; it’s very rare.
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Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible.
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Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.
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The woman’s sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion
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Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It’s the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
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