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I’m not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.

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The Waste Land not figuring very largely in Mam’s scheme of things. “The thing is,” I said finally, “he won the Nobel Prize.” “Well,” she said, with that unerring grasp of inessentials which is the prerogative of mothers, “I’m not surprised. It was a beautiful overcoat.”
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What I’m above all primarily concerned with is the substance of life, the pith of reality.
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