Quotes about Thornton Wilder

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the...

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

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

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim...

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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of...

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

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

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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than...

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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put...

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent...

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