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«If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.»
«Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
bribe, bribed, bribes, bribing, householder, housekeeper, housekeepers
«Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Confidence,
Mankind
| Keywords:
attentive, confidences, efface, effaced, effaces, effacing, recipients, self-effacing
«The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
adventure, at home, in the middle, mess, quietly, sitting, The test
«My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate»
«Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Actors and acting,
Managers
| Keywords:
actors, blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, checks, directors, plays, signatures
«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.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«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.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| About:
Appearance
| Keywords:
beholder, beholders, Eye of, Eye of the Beholder, landscape
«Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.»
«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.''»
Author: Thornton Wilder
| Keywords:
behold, beholding, dramatist, dramatists, employ, fitted, supremely, theatre, The Theatre
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