A play is a railway journey by an express train—forty miles an hour, and from time to time ten minutes stop for the intermissions; and if the locomotive ceases rushing and hissing you hiss.
How to Write a Play / Letters from Augier, Banville, Dennery, Dumas, Gondinet, / Labiche, Legouvé, Pailleron, Sardou, Zola
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