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A good writer preserves an ai...

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

How terrifying and glorious t...

How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Oh, earth, you're too wonderf...

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

She had never realized any lo...

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 visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed though a long servitude, though its own self-hatred, though mockery, though great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

We all know that something is...

We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

There is nothing like eavesdr...

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

But soon we shall die and all...

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Without your wounds where wou...

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. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

When God loves a creature he ...

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 being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

I think I write in order to d...

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Choose the least important da...

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

That's the advantage of havin...

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Some say that we shall never ...

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Everybody's talking about peo...

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 191 quotes

That’s what it was like to be...

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 of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

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If a man has no vices, he is ...

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

A man looks pretty small at a...

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 a mighty public way.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Imprisonment of the body is b...

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

I am my own judge of what tru...

I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

A dramatist is one who from h...

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 without having to encase it in comment.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

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