Thornton Wilder Quotes - Page 2

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• Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

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  Important, Important Days, Enough

  Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• 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.

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  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

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  Earth, Realize Life, Realizing

  Our Town act 3 (1938)

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

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  Animal, Best Things

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• A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

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  Believe, Theatre, Events

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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  Beauty, Evil, World

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• People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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  Two, People, Our Town

  Rachmael ben Avram, Thornton Wilder, William Shakespeare (1969). “The act and the image: Including Our town”

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• Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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  Faith, Hope, Fear

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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  Decision, Awareness, Freedom To Choose

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

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  Years, Needs, Impatient

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• Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

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  Life, Perfect, Persons

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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

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  Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

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• When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

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  Happiness, Understanding, Alive

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

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  Intelligence, Favors, Conditions

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

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  Waiting, World, Stuff

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.42, Theatre Communications Group

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• 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.

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  Time, Moving, Eye

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

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  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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• Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

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  Clarity, Consciousness, Pool

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• I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

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  Crazy, Trying, Want

  Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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• A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

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  Book, Reading, Air

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• A play visibly represents pure existing.

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  Play, Pure

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.271, Theatre Communications Group

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• you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

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  Love Life, Needs

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• EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

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  Doe, Saint, Realize Life

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• There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

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  Night, Remember, Equal

  Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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• Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

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  Summer, Boys, Sparrows

  Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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