A dramatist is one who ...

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.
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.
 Thornton Wilder

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
 Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
 Thornton Wilder
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.
 Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
 Thornton Wilder
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
 Thornton Wilder