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“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.'”
 
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Thornton Wilder
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Apr 17, 1897
 
Date of Death:   Dec 7,  1975
 
Profession:   Novelist
 
 
 
 
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