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Thornton Wilder Quotes

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.



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.



For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?



Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.



The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

Cool Quotes


Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.



There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

Love Quotes


A play visibly represents pure existing.



It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.