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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— 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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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— 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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— 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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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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. ↗

— Michael Wilding

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