Thornton Wilder Quotes

• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

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• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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• An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.

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• I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.

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

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• Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.

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• A play visibly represents pure existing.

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• The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.

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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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Thornton Wilder (49)

Birth:	17th April, 1897
Death:	7th December, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter

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