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I would love to be the poet la...

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

A play visibly represents pure...

A play visibly represents pure existing.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

An incinerator is a writer's b...

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

A dramatist is one who believe...

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 upon it.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

When God loves a creature he w...

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

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a...

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

It is very necessary to have m...

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Many plays - certainly mine - ...

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

The future author is one who d...

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 his way.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

The theatre is supremely fitte...

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 beholding this action.'

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Life is a fatal adventure. It ...

Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

The test of an adventure is th...

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish...

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

There is nothing like eavesdro...

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

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

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

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

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

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Love is an energy which exists...

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

[Whenever] you get near the hu...

[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

The test of an adventure is th...

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself 'Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

Faith is a never-ending pool o...

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

Thornton Wilder 191 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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