A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments,… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth .… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“She resembled the swallow in the fable who once every thousand years transferred a grain of wheat, in the hope of rearing… — 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
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