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Thornton Wilder Quotes
«Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise»
Author: 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.»
«And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«It Can't Happen Here.»
Author: Thornton Wilder
«One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.»
Author: Thornton Wilder