One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
