"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."

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“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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