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Thornton Wilder
One of the...
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or...
A play visibly...
A play visibly represents pure existing.
Source: In
Man is not...
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth...
The theatre is...
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to say: This moral...
I was an...
I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Source:...
It is only...
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...
My advice to...
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice-cream while it's on your plate, - that's my...
Enjoy your ice...
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
Source: The...
I've never forgotten...
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the...
Winning children (who...
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a...
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...