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Thornton Wilder (Writer)

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
— Thornton Wilder man
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 love
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while its on your plate -- thats my philosophy.
— Thornton Wilder philosophy
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
— Thornton Wilder life
The test of an adventure is that when youre in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now Ive got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that somethings wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
— Thornton Wilder adventure
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
— Thornton Wilder time
Its when youre safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When youre having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
— Thornton Wilder adventure
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
— Thornton Wilder man
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
— Thornton Wilder art
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 spirit
When youre safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when youre having an adventure you wish you were safe at home
— Thornton Wilder adventure
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 success
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while its on your plate - thats my philosophy
— Thornton Wilder philosophy
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home
— Thornton Wilder pride
Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
— Thornton Wilder nature
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder literature
An incinerator is a writers best friend.
— Thornton Wilder writers
The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder grief
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 time
The best thing about animals is that they dont talk much.
— Thornton Wilder animals
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
— Thornton Wilder death
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 love
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
— Thornton Wilder love
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
— Thornton Wilder sin
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
— Thornton Wilder beauty
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
— Thornton Wilder love
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think shes a householder.
— Thornton Wilder marriage
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
— Thornton Wilder nature
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 people
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
— Thornton Wilder reading
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 future
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 truth
Theres nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
— Thornton Wilder world
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 men
A play visibly represents pure existing.
— Thornton Wilder present
But there comes a moment in everybodys life when he must decide whether hell live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
— Thornton Wilder life
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
— Thornton Wilder world
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
— Thornton Wilder hope
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 happy
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 men
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think shes a householder
— Thornton Wilder marriage
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 children

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