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Thornton Wilder

"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."

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"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."

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"It is wonderful to live together as brothers and sisters."

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"Children observe everything with caution."

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"Blessed your mum, who carried you in a womb for nine months."

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"Children are the most fearless souls on earth."

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"Children can see the beatitudes in nature."

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"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."
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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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"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone."
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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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"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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