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

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Forced, More, Freedom, Choose

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Exploration, Way, Language

• The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Talk, Thing

• Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Every, Seek, Moment, Reading

• 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

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Condition, Good, Providence, Purpose, Something

• Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Envy, Home, Every, Pride

• Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Great, Rest, People, Fool, Danger

• Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Children, Nature

  Tags in Most

• Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Make, Marriage

• Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Lifetime, Yesterday, Tell

• 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

  Topics in Children

  Tags in Week, Beginning, Man

• Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Own

• Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Literature

• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in World, Evil, Necessary

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Appearance, Eye, Rather

• I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Poet

• 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.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stands, Excellent, Good, Every, Moment, Must, Danger

• 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

  Topics in Gift

  Tags in Exceptional, Except, Childhood, Unhappy

• For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Seem, Human

• An incinerator is a writer’s best friend.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Friend

Thornton Wilder (49)

Birth:	17th April, 1897
Death:	7th December, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter

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