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
best life marriage married merely rests
The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
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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.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
life country struggle
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. 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 - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
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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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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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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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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.