Best Thornton Wilder Sayings
- Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Contagion
- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Alone
- My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Acceptance
- Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Child
- 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. Adventure
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Alive
- It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that… Appearance
- I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional… Atheism
- Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. Danger
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. Day
- Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Atheism
- There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Bridge
- We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of… Birth
- Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. Children
- Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal… Aim
- I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. Coney
- A play visibly represents pure existing. Existing
- An incinerator is a writer's best friend. Best
- A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made… Action
- When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that… Alive
- If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. Acting
- In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. Advertising
- It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. Beauty
- Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. Actor
- The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to… Author
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