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... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of putting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has ...
... dramatist who is lucky enough to have been born with the faculty of putting things so that they carry across the footlights will also be an original thinker . He would not be a dramatist if his mind did not work in the concrete . He has ...
Page 139
... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
... dramatists pretended , for after all there were politics , golf , getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things , it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome , secondary business , a quick ...
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... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
... dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity because someone tells him he ...
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