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Quote by Denis Diderot
The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous

The pit of a theatre is the one place where the tears of virtuous and wicked men alike are mingled. – Denis Diderot

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Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad. – Denis Diderot

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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action. – Denis Diderot

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I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me. – Isadora Duncan

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The primary function of a theater is not to please itself, or even to please its audience. It is to serve talent. – Robert Brustein

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…I have never known a movement in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various uplifting activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism. – Minnie Maddern Fiske

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There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface. – Lydia Maria Child

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