The Need for Transcendence in the Postmodern World (1994)
Context: Cultural conflicts are increasing and are understandably more dangerous today than at any other time in history. The end of the era of rationalism has been catastrophic. Armed with the same supermodern weapons, often from the same suppliers, and followed by television cameras, the members of various tribal cults are at war with one another.
“By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.”
As quoted in Contemporary Quotations (1969) by James Beasley Simpson
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English actor, writer, and dramatist 1921–2004Related quotes
“There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.”
As quoted in Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887) by J.T. Lloyd, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=MV5DAAAAYAAJ
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"Eid, At The End Of Fasting Of Ramadan", as translated by Mohammad Omar Farooq
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), XX Humorous Writings
Quote, Professor P.C. Mahalanobis and the Development of Population Statistics in lndia
Source: The Visible Hand (1977), p. 281; Cited in: Best (1990, p. 48).