"The drama, like the symphony, does not teach……" — John Millington Synge
"The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything."
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John Millington Synge
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28 Quotes by John Millington Synge
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on…
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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a…
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk…
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her…
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No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe…
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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a…
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog,…
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good…
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist…
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