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Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature. — David Hare

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality. — David Hare

I'm trying to write something in which you know that it's all about sex but you never see any. — David Hare

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity. — David Hare

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable. — David Hare

When they speak, dead frogs fall out of their mouths. — David Hare

Some people carry their heart in their head and some carry their head in their heart. The trick is to keep them apart yet working together. — David Hare

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well. — David Hare

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it. — David Hare

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street. — David Hare

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy. — David Hare

The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. — David Hare

Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome. — David Hare

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century. — David Hare

Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways. — David Hare

The future of American film lies on television. — David Hare

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider. — David Hare

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. — David Hare

No one but a fool is always right. — David Hare

The world was created this morning. No such thing as the past ... — David Hare

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time. — David Hare

Children always turn to the light. — David Hare

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather. — David Hare

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. — David Hare

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system. — David Hare

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having. — David Hare

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity. — David Hare

'Via Dolorosa' is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I'll never act again. — David Hare

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer. — David Hare

America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome. — David Hare

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion. — David Hare

You can't get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV. — David Hare

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity. — David Hare

I believe love opens people up. — David Hare

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. — David Hare

Surely our job while we're here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes. — David Hare

In the '70s, terrorism was much more serious, in that many more people got killed. — David Hare

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft. — David Hare

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism. — David Hare

Smiles are the language of love. — David Hare

You make love like a wounded panther. You are like a paintshop on fire. — David Hare

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating. — David Hare

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides. — David Hare

In oratory the will must predominate. — David Hare

No single move traps the king. — David Hare