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We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

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Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of...more

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Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-...more

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Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's d...more

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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.