42 Quotations by Thornton Wilder
- 1. A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arres ...
- 2. A play visibly represents pure existing.
- 3. A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer ...
- 4. An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
- 5. Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.
- 6. Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous ...
- 7. For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
- 8. Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
- 9. I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhoo ...
- 10. I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.
- 11. I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being ...
- 12. I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
- 13. I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellen ...
- 14. If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
- 15. It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of th ...
- 16. It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evi ...
- 17. It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adve ...
- 18. Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
- 19. Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- 20. Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of th ...
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