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 of c… - Thornton Wilder

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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 of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."

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About Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (17 April 1897 – 7 December 1975) was a Pulitzer prize winning American author and playwright.

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Native Name: Thornton Niven Wilder
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