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  • To many, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

    -John Mason Brown
      Stagebill.

  • The four most dramatic words in the English language: 'Act One, Scene One.'

    - Moss Hart
      Act One.

  • Les temps primitifs sont lyriques, les temps antiques sont e  piques, les temps modernes sont dramatiques. The primitive era was lyrical, the classical era was epic and the modern era is dramatic.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Cromwell, pre  face.

  • S'apercevoir que sa me'  re est vierge.Les 36 situations dramatiques; trente-septie'  me situation. The thirty-seventh dramatic situation out of 36:To become aware that one's mother is a virgin.

    - Alfred Jarry
      L'Amour absolu, pt.3, e  pigraphe.

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