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
beauty evil world
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
luxury world expensive
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
truth honesty world
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
money differences world
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
world razors good-things
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
waiting world stuff
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
impulses land living loved memory necessary ourselves return shall
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,
employ fitted learned moral supremely theatre truth
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''
summer boys sparrows
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.
country travel want
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
bring mixing woman
There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense
above consciousness heads human knit law less practical primitive sea shelter smoke stretched temporary thousands tiny together wondering
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.
human layers near race wherever
Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
american-novelist cent danger fools great people per rest
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.