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Moss Hart Quotes - Page 2

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The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

The theatre breeds its own kind of cruelty, and its sadism takes on a keener edge since it can be enjoyed under the innocent guise of critical judgment.

Theatre, Sadism, Kind

moss hart (1959). “act one”

New York is not a city to return to in defeat.

New York, Cities, Return

moss hart (1959). “act one”

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Moving, Humor, Self

moss hart (1959). “act one”

A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.

Reality, Play, Study

1959 Act One.

Boredom is the keynote of poverty — of all its indignities, it is perhaps the hardest of all to live with — for where there is no money there is no change of any kind, not of scene or of routine. To be able to break out of its dark brown sameness.

Dark, Boredom, Poverty

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Self, Irony, Logic

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Play, Theatre, Charity

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely benevolence is not so much a purity of heart as the knowledge that they face a firing line with rifles aimed in exactly the same direction.

Heart, Play, People

moss hart (1959). “act one”

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