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101 ordspråk av Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder föddes den 17 april 1897 och dog den 7 december 1975 - amerikansk författare.
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I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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.

There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

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.

It Can't Happen Here.

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.

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