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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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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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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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