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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

Thornton Wilder

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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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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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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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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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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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