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“An incinerator is a writer's best friend.”

Quote by Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder

American playwright, renowned for his works 'Our Town' and 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'. His works are characterized by deep insight and a unique style, profoundly influencing 20th-century American theater. more

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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.”

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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.”

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

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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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“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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“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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“As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.”

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