58 Quotations with Thornton.
- 1. Thornton Wilder: Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

- 2. Thornton Wilder: Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ...

- 3. Thornton Wilder: Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

- 4. Thornton Wilder: A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human b ...

- 5. Thornton Wilder: A play visibly represents pure existing.

- 6. Thornton Wilder: Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

- 7. Paul B. Thornton: Continuous challenge produces continuous improvement.

- 8. Thornton Wilder: Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton acc ...

- 9. Thornton Wilder: For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

- 10. Millie Thornton: Generosity is a principle -- not an amount.

- 11. Thornton Wilder: I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of ...

- 12. Thornton Wilder: I not only bow to the inevitable, I am fortified by it.

- 13. Thornton Wilder: I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in ...

- 14. Thornton Wilder: I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.

- 15. Thornton Wilder: It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When y ...

- 16. Thornton Wilder: I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that eve ...

- 17. Thornton T. Munger: Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not ...

- 18. Thornton Wilder: Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

- 19. Thornton Wilder: Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the ...

- 20. Thornton Wilder: Many plays are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatu ...

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