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Thornton Wilder - From the Adventure category:
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. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Advice category:
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Beauty category:
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Beginning category:
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Choices category:
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Commerce category:
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Confession category:
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Danger category:
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 - From the Editing category:
An incinerator is a writer's best friend. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Gratitude category:
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of their treasures. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Greatness category:
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Hope category:
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Humanity category:
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Language category:
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. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Love category:
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Money category:
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Pets category:
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Purpose category:
A purpose is the eternal condition of success. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Reality category:
A play visibly represents pure existing. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Solitude category:
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. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Survival category:
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Talent category:
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Thought category:
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Time category:
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. (Thornton Wilder)
Thornton Wilder - From the Writing category:
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. (Thornton Wilder)
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