Talk:Thornton Wilder

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• An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

• For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

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

• In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

• Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

• Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

• 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.

• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

• Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.