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I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in "The Wild Duck," and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.

Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”
I once heard a woman laugh at that most tragic moment in all drama, the off-stage shot in The Wild Duck, and I afterward had her killed, so there will be no more of that out of her.