When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him. (Luigi Pirandello)

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Luigi Pirandello

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