Billy Wilder Theater

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    “Don: I’m not going near that country club.
    Wick: Why not?
    Don: They’re all a bunch of hypocrites. I don’t like to be whispered about—”Look who’s here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.””
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “Where the blackbird sings the latest,
    Where the hawthorn blooms the sweetest,
    Where the nestlings chirp and flee,
    That’s the way for Billy and me.”
    —James Hogg Hoffmann (1770–1835)

    “Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she’s a householder.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “The Beloved begins to undress. The lover is in an ecstasy of suspense. The Theater of Love.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)