Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilderwas an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 April 1897
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
funny ninety-nine people
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
nature children scary
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
time fool humans
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
earth realize-life wonderful
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?
positive-thinking thinking bows
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
adventure why-not life-is
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
unhappy-childhood atheism essentials
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.
decision awareness freedom-to-choose
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
self hatred needs
There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.
night sky singing
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
ideas cliffs return
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
excellence difficult
All excellence is equally difficult.
beautiful two perfect
Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
passion love-is energy
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.