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Irwin Shaw Quotes

In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Irwin Shaw

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Novelist Quotes
Category:
American Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
February 27, 1913
Date of Death:
May 16, 1984
Nationality:
American
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