"In this world, there is a kind of painful progress: longing for what we left behind and dreaming ahead," Harper Pitt from Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
"Leaving things open... so gaps remain... so that one has time to look to others who in some cases need time to get to know themselves," Julie Lopes-Curval director of Seaside.
"And it's not a matter of whether the war is not real or if it is. Victory is not possible. The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia but to keep the very structure of society intact," Michael Moore in Fahrenheit 9/11 paraphrasing George Orwell's 1984.
