In the movie A Lonely Place (1950) Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart): “I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.” This was my experience a few times in life; I hope it was yours too. Better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.
But…
Would we still remember this brilliant summary of love if Andrew P. Solt had said it at a party, or even before a full house at Carnegie Hall? No. Yet these are not Bogart’s words; he read them. Creation of the words makes them possible; performance make sthem memorable.
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