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You Desire A Popular Art? Begin By Having A "people" Whose Minds Are Liberated, A People Not Crushed By Misery And Ceaseless Toil, Not Brutalized By Every Superstition And Every Fanaticism, A People Of Itself, And Victor In The Fight That Is Being Waged Today.

Theatre Supposes Lives That Are Poor And Agitated, A People Searching In Dreams For A Refuge From Thought. If We Were Happier And Freer We Should Not Feel Hungry For Theatre. A People That Is Happy And Free Has Need Of Festivities More Than Of Theatres; It Will Always See In Itself The Finest Spectacle.

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The Greatest Book Is Not The One Whose Message Engraves Itself On The Brain, As A Telegraphic Message Engraves Itself On The Ticker-tape, But The One Whose Vital Impact Opens Up Other Viewpoints, And From Writer To Reader Spreads The Fire That Is Fed By The Various Essences, Until It Becomes A Vast Conflagration Leaping From Forest To Forest.

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