Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder: Madison

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Thornton Wilder: Hamden

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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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.: Thornton Wilder

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Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.: Thornton Wilder

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The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.: Thornton Wilder

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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.: Thornton Wilder

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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

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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.: Thornton Wilder

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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.: Thornton Wilder

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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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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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> 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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.: Thornton Wilder

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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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.: Thornton Wilder

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.: Thornton Wilder

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quotationsbook inserted: Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?: Thornton Wilder

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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 -- that's my philosophy.: Thornton Wilder

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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 wishing you were out having lots of adventure.: Thornton Wilder

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quotationsbook inserted: 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 wishing you were out having lots of adventure. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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

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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

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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quotationsbook inserted: 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. --Quotation: Author--> Thornton Wilder

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.: Thornton Wilder

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A play visibly represents pure existing.: Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: Alumnus/Alumna

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Davenport College: Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: Male

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Thornton Wilder: The Merchant of Yonkers

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Hello, Dolly!: Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: IMDb profile page

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Hello Dolly!: Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder: Our Town

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Thornton Wilder: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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Thornton Wilder: Award Winner

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Thornton Wilder: Novelist

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Thornton Wilder: Writer

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Thornton Wilder: United States

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Thornton Wilder: Уайлдер, Торнтон

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