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Desmond MacCarthy Quotes

1877–1952 England

Sir Charles Otto Desmond McCarthy FRSL (20 May 1877 – 7 June 1952) was a British journalist, literary and drama critic, and literary editor. He was knighted in 1951.

England
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... the dramatist has to tell his story entirely in the present tense. We must allow him a certain license in foreshortening changes in human beings which in order to be true to life require the passage of time.

Theatre (1955)

Many changes within human beings, such as offer the most interesting themes, are inevitably hidden and silent, or too gradual for drama. 'To penetrate deeply into the human consciousness is the glory of the philosopher, the moralist, the novelist, and, to a certain degree, even of the lyric poet', but the capacity to do so is not enough to make a dramatist.

Theatre (1955)

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