David Hare Quotes

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You can't get buried quickly at Bexhill on Sea—it's like getting a table at the Caprice.

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The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe.

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This feeling, finally, that we may change things – this is at the centre of everything we are. Lose that... lose that, lose everything.

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Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to raise questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

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Policing's largely the fine art of getting through biros.

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If Christ were to return today, the Church of England would ask him to set out his ideas on a single sheet of A4.

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To portray only what you would like to be true is the beginning of censorship.

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Journalism is life with the mystery taken out. Art is life with the mystery restored.

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The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and that is why, ragged and gap-toothed as it is, it has still a far healthier potential than some poorer, abandoned arts.

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England's funny. You only get the point of it eight days a year. The sun comes out and you remember. You think oh, yes, all this... all this around us – that's what it's for.

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When you get angry, they tell you, count to five before you reply. Why should I count to five? It's what happens before you count to five which makes life interesting.

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How the right wing always appropriate good manners. Yes? They always have that. Form and decorum. A permanent excuse for not addressing themselves to what people actually say, because they can always turn their heads away if a sentence is not correctly formulated.

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My father always said 'There's no free lunch.' My father was right. There's no free lunch and there's no free market. The market is rigged, the market is always rigged, and the rigging is in favour of the people who run the market. That's what the market is. It's a bent casino. The house always wins.

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