"Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy."

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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.”

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