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When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

Source: The Father, in Six Characters in Search of an Author, act 3.
-- Luigi Pirandello, (Jun 28 1867-1936), Italian playwright, novelist, short-story writer; He invented the theatre within the theatre in the play Six Characters in Search of an Author, 1921; won the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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