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"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."
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"The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past."
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"The past is a shadow; the present is real."
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"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
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"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
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"Your past does not define you, your present does."
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"The past is magnetic. It draws us in."
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"The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations."
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"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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"The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature."
Actor
"Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama."
Civilization
"In all the great periods of the drama perfect freedom of choice and subject, perfect freedom of individual treatment, and an audience eager to give itself to sympathetic listening, even if instruction be involved, have brought the great results."
Choice
"Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else."
Being
"In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action."
Action
"Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation."
Past
"The drama is a great revealer of life."
Life
"Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men."
Men
"In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending."
Character
"Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be."
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