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Inspirational Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
- What is essential does not die but clarifies.
- Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
- Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
- Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
- Heaven's my destination.
- I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
- Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
- A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
- We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
- 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…
- A play visibly represents pure existing.
- An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
- The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from…
- Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
- Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
- The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
- you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
- If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
- 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…
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento