American - Novelist | April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975
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.
Thornton Wilder
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
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Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
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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.
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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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.
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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