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An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted. - [Illusion] By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more and not merely to spend our feelings. - [Drama] Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value. - [Profitless] Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - [Lending] The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost. - [Plays] The task of the real intellectual consists of analyzing illusions in order to discover their causes. - [Cause] The word 'now' is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks. - [Present]
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