Thornton Wilder

(401 votes)   The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(287 votes)   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 wish

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(139 votes)   I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. 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 -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(139 votes)   The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(134 votes)   The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(132 votes)   Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(126 votes)   Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(120 votes)   Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(119 votes)   Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(111 votes)   I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(104 votes)   Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Thornton Wilder
1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

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(83 votes)   But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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(50 votes)   If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

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(42 votes)   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.'

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(37 votes)   An incinerator is a writer's best friend.

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