Truth Quotes by Thornton Wilder

8 Truth quotes by Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder’s perspective on truth is captured in eight compact lines. His humanistic, narrative voice offers a brief glimpse into his contemplative take on honesty. Ideal for a short, reflective read.

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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each…

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can…

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A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

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“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors;…

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But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

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“Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved…

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The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the…

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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.

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“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…

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“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as…

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Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest…

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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…

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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.”

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of…

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

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“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose…

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Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

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“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and…

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

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There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

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