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These things just cannot be life . It is the other things I have mentioned — dance halls , carnivals , books , holidays , friends , love , spare time — these things are life . ' . The superstition developed that we were paying for the ...
These things just cannot be life . It is the other things I have mentioned — dance halls , carnivals , books , holidays , friends , love , spare time — these things are life . ' . The superstition developed that we were paying for the ...
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The time was 3 October 1891 , and Pinero put this motto to his play : ' I don't aspire to great things , but I wish to speak of great things with gratitude and of mean things with indignation . It is the motto of a comedy , not of a ...
The time was 3 October 1891 , and Pinero put this motto to his play : ' I don't aspire to great things , but I wish to speak of great things with gratitude and of mean things with indignation . It is the motto of a comedy , not of a ...
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In the farces ' from the French ' of Pinero's youth , the characters did wildly improbable things and audiences laughed because the things done were as improbable as the men and women who did them . Not so when Pinero's revolution was ...
In the farces ' from the French ' of Pinero's youth , the characters did wildly improbable things and audiences laughed because the things done were as improbable as the men and women who did them . Not so when Pinero's revolution was ...
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