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Thornton Wilder Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975

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Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness. Thornton Wilder
It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he... Thornton Wilder
Esteban fell face downward upon the floor. "I am alone, alone, alone," he cried. The Captain stood above him, his great plain face ridged and gray with pain; it was his own old hours he was reliving. He was the awkwardest speaker in the world apart from the lore of the sea, but there are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal. He could not be sure the figure on the floor was listening, but he said, "We do what we can. We push on, Esteban, as best we can. It isn't for... Thornton Wilder
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world..."
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. Thornton Wilder
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Thornton Wilder
[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. Thornton Wilder
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. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and..."
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the..."
Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world. Thornton Wilder
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. Thornton Wilder

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