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David Ives
Born
in Chicago, The United States
January 01, 1950
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All in the Timing
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1994
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16 editions
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Venus in Fur
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published
2011
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21 editions
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Time Flies and Other Short Plays
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Sure Thing
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published
1994
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2 editions
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Voss
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published
2008
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3 editions
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New Jerusalem: The Interrogation of Baruch de Spinoza at Talmud Torah Congregation, Amsterdam, July 27, 1656
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published
2009
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9 editions
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The Liar (ReDiscovery Series)
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published
2010
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6 editions
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Scrib
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published
2005
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6 editions
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Polish Joke and Other Plays
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2004
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5 editions
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The School for Lies: A Play Adapted from Molière's The Misanthrope
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2011
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7 editions
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“Ultimately one has to pity these poor souls who know every secret about writing, directing, designing, producing, and acting but are stuck in those miserable day jobs writing reviews. Will somebody help them, please?”
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“Vanda (as Dunayev): I am a pagan. I am a Greek. I love the ancients not for their pediments or their poetry, but becausein their world Venus could love Paris one day and Anchises the next. Because they're not the moderns, who live in their mind, and because they're the opposite of Christians, who live on a cross. I don't live in my mind, or on a cross. I live on this divan. In this dress. In these stockings and these shoes. I want to live the way Helen and Aspasia lived, not the twisted women of today, who are never happy and never give happiness. Who won't admit that they want love without limit. Why should I forgo any possible pleasure, abstain from any sensual experience? I'm young, I'm rich, and I'm beautiful and I shall make the most of that. I shall deny myself nothing.
Thomas (as Kushemski): I certainly respect your devotion to principle.
Vanda (as Dunayev): I don't need your respect, excuse me. I'll take happiness. My happiness, not society's happiness. I will love a man who pleases me, and please a man who makes me happy--but only as long as he makes me happy, not a moment longer.”
― Venus in Fur
Thomas (as Kushemski): I certainly respect your devotion to principle.
Vanda (as Dunayev): I don't need your respect, excuse me. I'll take happiness. My happiness, not society's happiness. I will love a man who pleases me, and please a man who makes me happy--but only as long as he makes me happy, not a moment longer.”
― Venus in Fur
“Vanda (as Dunayev): In our society, a woman's only power is through men. Her character is her lack of character. She's a blank, to be filled in my creatures who at heart despise her. I want to see what Woman will be when she ceases to be man's slave. When she has the same rights as he, when she's his equal in education and his partner in work. When she becomes herself. An individual.”
― Venus in Fur
― Venus in Fur
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| Young Adult Book ...: Quarterly Challenge (Summer 2011) | 113 | 669 | Aug 31, 2011 04:02PM | |
| 100 books in 2011 : Karis | 114 | 76 | Sep 07, 2011 10:48AM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Sandra's 100 Books in 2015 | 11 | 72 | Jun 11, 2015 03:00AM | |
| What's the Name o...: Looking for romance books about con artists/thiefs | 14 | 159 | Feb 28, 2018 12:26AM | |
| Around the Year i...: Alphabetical Categories | 6994 | 817 | Oct 04, 2018 02:12PM | |
| What's the Name o...: Adult Play(?). A couple is talking about acquaintances, one is being critical. Offstage character described as "A burgher of Calais." Similar to "Ancient History" by David Ives. Read in 1990s. | 6 | 188 | Dec 01, 2020 12:19PM |
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