Italian - Playwright | March 24, 1926 - October 13, 2016
While drawing, I discover what I really want to say.
Dario Fo
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With comedy I can search for the profound.
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A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.
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Satire can always be found everywhere. A people without love for satire is a dead people.
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Our homeland is the whole world. Our law is liberty. We have but one thought, revolution in our hearts.
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It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
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Know how to live the time that is given you.
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Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
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Culturally, I have always been part of the proletariat. I lived side by side with the sons of glassblowers, fishermen and smugglers. The stories they told were shaper satires about the hypocrisy of authority and the middle classes, the two-facedness of teachers and lawyers and politicians. I was born politicized.
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For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
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Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished.
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When I was a boy, unconsciously, spontaneously I learned the art of telling ironic stories.
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