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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The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion a temporary shelter for the human project.Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Thornton Wilder
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards --who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton Wilder
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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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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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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