Quotes by Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder

American writer and playwright

Lived from: 1897 - 1975

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 17 april 1897 Died: 7 december 1975

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  • 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 wish
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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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  • 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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  • We can only be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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  • When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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  • Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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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.
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