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Thornton Wilder

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A play visibly represents pure existing.


— Thornton Wilder


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An incinerator is a writer's best friend.


— Thornton Wilder


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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?


— Thornton Wilder


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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.


— Thornton Wilder


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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.


— Thornton Wilder


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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.


— Thornton Wilder


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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.


— Thornton Wilder


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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.


— Thornton Wilder


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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.


— Thornton Wilder


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Did you know about Thornton Wilder?

National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—and a U.

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