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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)
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
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 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 (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 (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
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 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 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 (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 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 (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 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 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." (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 (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures (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 (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight (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 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 (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 (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. he lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. it dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. it recommends moderation (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
Imagination draws on memory. memory and imagination combined can stage a servants' ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the Earth... and the ambitions they had... and the pleasures they had... and the things they suffered... and the people they loved. they get weaned away from Earth— that's the way I put it—weaned away (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes (Thornton Wilder Quotes)
There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well (Thornton Wilder Quotes)