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“The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.”

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Source: Total Eclipse

“Brecht always liked people to be aware that they were in a theatre. I said to him more than once, but Brecht, what makes you think they think they're anywhere else?”

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Horváth in Tales from Hollywood (1983), scene 8

“Masturbation is the thinking man's television.”

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Jonathan, in The Philanthropist (1969)

“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”

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Don, in The Philanthropist (1969), scene 6

“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.”

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Sunday Times Magazine (London, October 16, 1977)