Julian Beck

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We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering. If we could feel that one person every six seconds dies of starvation ... we would stop it. ... If we could really feel it in the bowels, the groin, in the throat, in the breast, we would go into the streets and stop the war, stop slavery, stop the prisons, stop the killing, stop destruction.
- Julian Beck
Collection: Pain
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You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.
- Julian Beck
Collection: Fiction
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The power of art is the power of truth.
- Julian Beck
Collection: Art
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I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.
- Julian Beck
Collection: Sex
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When the sexual energy of the people is liberated they will break the chains.
- Julian Beck
Collection: People
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We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering at once.
- Julian Beck
Collection: Pain