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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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Visibly
Existing
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Pure

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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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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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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
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Heaven's my destination.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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