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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist Exploration

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

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Goals

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy - Thornton Wilder Quotes

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy

Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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American Novelist People

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose

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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist Appearance

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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American Novelist God

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist Literature

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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American Novelist Bridge

Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.

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I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

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There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense - Thornton Wilder Quotes

There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense

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Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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American Novelist Animals

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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American Novelist

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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American Novelist Hope

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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American Novelist Confidence

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.'' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wish

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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate - Thornton Wilder Quotes

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate

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Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

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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.'' - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

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An incinerator is a writer's best friend. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist Best Friends

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

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American Novelist Mankind

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for... - Thornton Wilder Quotes

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for...

Thornton Wilder

And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, - Thornton Wilder Quotes

And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,

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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist Love

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home

Thornton Wilder

Pride

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a fool among fools or a fool alone. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a fool among fools or a fool alone.

Thornton Wilder

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.

Thornton Wilder

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

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A play visibly represents pure existing. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

Thornton Wilder

Critics And Criticism

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. - Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

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