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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
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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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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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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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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