"The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all."
-Gore Vidal
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"We must declare ourselves, become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.“
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"That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers."
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