There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Quote by Thornton Wilder

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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having...

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are...

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the...

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day...

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day...

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live...

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...