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No, it isn’t--it’s never quite that. I l...

Alice Sycamore

You Can't Take It With You

Moss Hart George S. Kaufman

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You Can't Take It With You
Character
Alice Sycamore
Gender
Female
Playing Age
Young Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act 1, Scene 2
Time & Place
The Vanderhof/Sycamore house, New York, NY, 1936
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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No, it isn’t--it’s never quite that. I love them, Tony-I love them deeply. Some people could break away, but I couldn’t. I know they do rather strange things... [... ...]
He could have been a rich man, but he said it took too much time. So, for thirty-five years, he's just collected snakes, and gone to circuses, and commencements. It never occurs to any of them...

Hart, Moss & George S. Kaufman. You Can't Take It With You Dramatists Play Service Acting Edition, p.31.

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