“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
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Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel *The Bridge of San Luis Rey* and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel *The Eighth Day*. ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornton_Wilder
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“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
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“Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.”
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“Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.”
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“In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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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“Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.”
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“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”
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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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“There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.”
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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.”
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“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'”
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“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”
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“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
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“Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.”
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“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”
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“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
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“If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.”
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“A play visibly represents pure existing.”
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