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Eduardo Machado - It's the duty of the playwright to...
It's the duty of the playwright to sneak in as many effronteries as he can. If you act completely effrontive to people, they'll never go listen. So you gotta sneak it past them... (Eduardo Machado)

It's the duty of the playwright to sneak in as many effronteries as he can. If you act completely effrontive to people, they'll never go listen. So you gotta sneak it past them...

Eduardo Machado

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