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Thornton Wilder Quotes
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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being.
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city.
If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Ninety-nine per cent of people in the world are fools, and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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Here is the secret of inspiration: tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
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Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
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A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left.
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My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
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