“You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.”

Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

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Irish playwright 1856–1950

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