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Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Being Else Felt He Human Human Being Immature Impulse Mature Never Pretend Rare Some Something Something Else Who

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Sensitive, responsive, eagerly welcomed everywhere, the drama, holding the mirror up to nature, by laughter and by tears reveals to mankind the world of men.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Drama Eagerly Everywhere Holding Laughter Mankind Men Mirror Nature Responsive Reveals Sensitive Tears Up Welcomed World

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The drama is a great revealer of life.

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Topics: Drama Great Life

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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Actor Adequate Characterization Desire Dialogue Dramatic Instinct Itself Literature Memorable Playwright Pleasure Produces Provide

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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Audience Between Clever Comedy Depends Difference Emphasis Essential He His Make Material Point Point Of View Tragedy Tries View Which

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We do not kill the drama, we do not really limit its appeal by failing to encourage the best in it; but we do thereby foster the weakest and poorest elements.

~George Pierce Baker

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What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

~George Pierce Baker

Topics: Assumed Come Death Elizabethan Ending Far Live More Period Play Recent Recent Years Sometimes Than Then Tragedy Tragic Understand Years

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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature.

~George Pierce Baker

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: April 4th, 1866

Died: January 6th, 1935

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