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One Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
- There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
- When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
- Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
- A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing…
- 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…
- 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 dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made…
- 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…
- That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings…
- Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the…
- 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…
- 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.…
- A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
- Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
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