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George Pierce Baker quotes: Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

Rare is the human being, immature or mature, who has never felt an impulse to pretend he is some one or something else.

George Pierce Baker quotes: But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

But what is drama? Broadly speaking, it is whatever by imitative action rouses interest or gives pleasure.

George Pierce Baker quotes: Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

Acted drama requires surrender of one's self, sympathetic absorption in the play as it develops.

George Pierce Baker quotes: Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

Farce treats the improbable as probable, the impossible as possible.

George Pierce Baker quotes: In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

In reading plays, however, it should always be remembered that any play, however great, loses much when not seen in action.

George Pierce Baker quotes: No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

No drama, however great, is entirely independent of the stage on which it is given.

George Pierce Baker quotes: Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

Drama read to oneself is never drama at its best, and is not even drama as it should be.

George Pierce Baker quotes: The drama is a great revealer of life.

The drama is a great revealer of life.