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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Written by Thornton Wilder
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.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Written by Thornton Wilder
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
Written by Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Written by Thornton Wilder
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
Written by Thornton Wilder
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Written by Thornton Wilder
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Written by Thornton Wilder
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.
Written by Thornton Wilder
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Written by Thornton Wilder
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Written by Thornton Wilder
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Written by Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Written by Thornton Wilder
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Written by Thornton Wilder
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Written by Thornton Wilder
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
Written by Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Written by Thornton Wilder
A play visibly represents pure existing.
Written by Thornton Wilder
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Written by Thornton Wilder
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Written by Thornton Wilder
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Written by Thornton Wilder

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