Thornton Wilder

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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