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

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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 can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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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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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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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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