"Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre."

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Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump. It's blissfully simple to strike a savvy, sophisticated pose by attacking someone else's creations, but the old adage is right: Any fool can burn down a barn. Building one is something else again.

— Martha Beck