Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

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After each war there is a little less democracy to save.

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Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.

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Don't be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for a half a day first.

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There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.

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It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

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The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Brooks Atkinson in Once Around the Sun, 1951
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Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

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It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

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