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Theater Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
- A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing…
- On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character…
- 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…
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