"Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world."

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“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.”

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“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

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“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”

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