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
night remember equal
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
crazy trying want
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?
children heart angel
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.
writing impress be-good
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
believe theatre events
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.
marriage children growing-up
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.
waiting world stuff
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
inspirational hope motivation
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
happiness laughter acceptance
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
art secret desire
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
love life fun
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
memories land bridges
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
inspirational life inspiring
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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.