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"Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process."

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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

— Leonard Cohen

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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

— Gustave Flaubert

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