All life is theatre," he said. "We are all actors, you and … - Susan Cooper

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All life is theatre," he said. "We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves...." He laughed gently. "Some players would say that is the best kind of theatre there can be.

Susan Cooper

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About Susan Cooper

Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English-born American author of children’s books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a five-volume contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales.

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Strong as a young lion, pliant as a loving woman, and bitter to the taste, as all enchantment in the end must be.

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