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" So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing. "
T. S. Eliot
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" There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled. "
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" All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords. "
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" Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. "
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" The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. "
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