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Drama - what literature does at night.

George Jean Nathan

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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
Critic
Film Critic
Journalist
Writer
Fort Wayne
Indiana
Literature
Night
Doe
Theatre
Drama

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The Russian dramatist is one who, walking through a cemetery, does not see the flowers on the graves. The American dramatist . . . Does not see the graves under the flowers.
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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
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