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Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty...
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Where there is...
Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
Source: In Great Business...
The planting of...
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the...
A sense of...
A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them...
Ninety-nine per cent...
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of...
The test of...
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an...
And the sign...
And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home And the sign that something's wrong with...
Hope, like faith,...
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not...
Every good thing...
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
Source: Wriston's...
I regard the...
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with...
But there comes...
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a...
The best thing...
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Source: In The Speaker's...
A dramatist is...
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any...
Life is an...
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
Source: In The Speaker's...
A living is...
A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million...
I am convinced...
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to...
Even memory is...
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,...
I do borrow...
I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on...
Never support two...
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners --your lecherous liars and your miserly...
Literature is the...
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Source: In Time, 12 Jan 53
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