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A play visibly represents pure existing.

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Pure
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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