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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."
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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.'"


"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."


"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."


"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."


"I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for."


"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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