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It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.

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Ours is the age of substitutes: Instead of language we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and instead of genuine ideas, bright suggestions.

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If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the worldis provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated. . . . One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.

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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

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Even in a jungle, lovely flowers will spring up here and there, such being the fecundity of nature, and however badly our pastors and masters run our society, however much they pull to pieces that which they claim to be keeping intact, nature remains fecund, human beings are born with human traits, sometimes human strength outweighs human weakness, and human grace shows itself amid human ugliness. ‘In the bloodiest times,’ as our play has it, ‘there are kind people. ’

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