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There are 27 quotes for the author Thornton Wilder

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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Subject: Hope & Dreams

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Subject: Life

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

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.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

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.

The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

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

An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

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.

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

On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

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