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The critic and the drama (1922)
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The aim of great drama is not to make men happy with themselves as they are, but with themselves as they might, yet alas cannot, be.
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Art is a reaching out into the ugliness of the world for vagrant beauty and the imprisoning of it in a tangible form.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
George Jean Nathan
Born:
February 14, 1882
Died:
April 8, 1958
(aged 76)
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