All Thornton Wilder Quotes
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Thornton Wilder
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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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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
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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.
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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
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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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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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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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.
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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
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