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"A play visibly represents pure existing."
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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."
"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."
"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."
"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."
"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."
"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."
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"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
"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."
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