Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

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• George Pierce Baker:

  The drama is a great revealer of life.

• George Pierce Baker:

  The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations pr

• George Pierce Baker:

  There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the poi

• George Pierce Baker:

  We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it;

• George Pierce Baker:

  What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tr

• George Pierce Baker:

  When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a

• Remy de Gourmont:

  The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

• Remy de Gourmont:

  We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

• Remy de Gourmont:

  Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.

• Remy de Gourmont:

  Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.