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I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. Th...

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It is rare for people to be asked the question which puts them squarely in front of themselves

Here is all the invisible world, caught, defined, and calculated. In these books the Devil stands st...

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School plays were invented partly to give parents and easy opportunity to demonstrate their prioriti...

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air     Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;     Brighter art...

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If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

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If you spend a hundred bucks, or more, to go to the theatre, something should happen to you. Maybe s...

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Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and w...

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Eugene O'NeillLong Day's Journey Into Night

To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within mys...

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

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Thus like a Captive in an Isle confin'd,Man walks at large, a Pris'ner of the Mind

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John DrydenFour Plays by Dryden: The Conquest of Granada parts 1 and 2

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

DYER. (Sits down) There was nothing that I recall save that the Sunne was a Round flat shining Disc ...

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And I was a Child again, watching the bright World. But the Spell broke when at this Juncture some G...

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The plays should have the half-life of plutonium.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge...

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GUIL: It [Hamlet's madness] really boils down to symptoms. Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mista...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, ...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

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