Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. - David Hare

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Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. - David Hare

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The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. - David Hare

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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. - David Hare

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - David Hare

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No one but a fool is always right. - David Hare

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The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. - David Hare

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As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. - David Hare

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In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. - David Hare

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Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. - David Hare

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