“Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.”
The New Yorker (30 July 1990)
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“If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors.”
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A Short Organum for the Theatre (1949)

“Beliefs do not change facts. Facts, if one is rational, should change beliefs.”

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Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (1999), Viola Spolin's Preface to the Second Edition, page iv

“I don't know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.”

“Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.”