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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
Theatre
Drama
Literature
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Doe
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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
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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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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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Men go to the theatre to forget women, to remember.
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A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
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So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.
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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
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