Thornton Wilder Quotes
49 Thornton Wilder quotes:
"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."
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Charming Quotes
"Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder"
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Marriage Quotes
"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."
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American Novelist Quotes
Best Friends Quotes
"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."
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American Novelist Quotes
"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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American Novelist Quotes
"There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head."
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American Novelist Quotes
"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home"
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Adventure Quotes
"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success."
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Goals Quotes
"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home"
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Pride Quotes
"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."
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Support Quotes
Vice Quotes
"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."
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American Novelist Quotes
Exploration Quotes
"If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent."
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American Novelist Quotes
"A play visibly represents pure existing."
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American Novelist Quotes
"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."
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American Novelist Quotes
"Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests."
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American Novelist Quotes
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
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American Novelist Quotes
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose"
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Choice Quotes
"The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so."
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Marriage Quotes
"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."
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American Novelist Quotes
"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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American Novelist Quotes
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