The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed… — 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
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
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. — 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
[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 whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid… — 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
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of… — 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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