Eric Bentley quotes:
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
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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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Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas.
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If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.
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A play has two authors, the playwright and the actor.
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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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Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsequently turns its back on bad and good alike.
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Like dreams, farces show the disguised fulfillment of repressed wishes.