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Porgy lived in the Golden Age. Not the Golden Age of a remote and…
Quote byDuBose Heyward · 1885–1940
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Porgy (1925), pt. 1.
English (original)
Porgy lived in the Golden Age. Not the Golden Age of a remote and legendary past; nor yet the chimerical era treasured by every man past middle life, that never existed except in the heart of youth; but an age when men, not yet old, were boys in an ancient, beautiful city that time had forgotten before it destroyed.
— DuBose Heyward
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