Thornton Wilder Quotes
An American author and playwright.
(1897 - 1975)
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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.
[Action]
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference ... it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
[Events]
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An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
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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.
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Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
[Hope]
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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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.
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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.
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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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I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.
[Acceptance]
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. 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 - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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If a man has no vices, he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
[Virtue]
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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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.
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