“Receive an injury rather than do one.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
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“One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.”
On his play Tiny Alice, in National Observer (5 April 1965)
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