“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance;… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of… — 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
“She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the… — 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
