Best Thornton Wilder Words
- If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good Bad
- There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are… All
- He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they… Business
- But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary. Became
- She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to… Among
- Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse Bitter
- All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization… All
- Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English… Country
- the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to… Bitter
- There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to… Curse
- You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking… Able
- Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Accident
- The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Acted
- Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women.… Angel
- I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in… Been
- Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these… Been
- Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time. Employed
- A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something… Any
- But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a… Alone
- A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. Action
- Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them. Attached
- Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. Less
- I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it. Bow
- I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for. Danger
- For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Alleviation
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