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
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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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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.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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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.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.