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George Pierce Baker

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending.

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These are some quotes by American author George Pierce Baker Educator, who lived between April 4, 1866 and January 6, 1935.

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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

George Pierce Baker

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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

George Pierce Baker

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In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

George Pierce Baker

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