The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. - 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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The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. - 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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Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. - 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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Smiles are the language of love. - 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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When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. - David Hare

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Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none. - David Hare

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