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In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin ShawAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: american
- Born: February 27, 1913
- Died: May 16, 1984
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C.-C.: Tell me frankly, Kitty, don't you think people make a lot of unnecessary fuss about love?
LADY KITTY: It's the most wonderful thing in the world.
C.-C.: You're incorrigible. Do you really think it was worth sacrificing so much for?
LADY KITTY: My dear Clive, I don't mind telling you that if I had my time over again I should be unfaithful to you, but I should not leave you.
W. Somerset Maugham