A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment. Thornton Wilder More Quotes by Thornton Wilder More Quotes From Thornton Wilder Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense. Thornton Wilder nonsense doctors looks Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will. Thornton Wilder comparison teach 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 awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure. Thornton Wilder wish home adventure The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away. Thornton Wilder ambition letting-go long People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very thoughts in your eyes. Thornton Wilder eye spring country [Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense. Thornton Wilder our-town layers race How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Thornton Wilder rip hate house A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time. Thornton Wilder artist time years Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them. Thornton Wilder conditions intelligence favors The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Thornton Wilder cliffs tides ideas Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. Thornton Wilder envy pride home The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones. Thornton Wilder persuasive revival problem When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. Thornton Wilder war peace thinking If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle. Thornton Wilder virtue vices men Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day Thornton Wilder week men children There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation. Thornton Wilder hope-and-faith faith doe Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure. Thornton Wilder moon weather looks Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. Thornton Wilder unbroken inspire life [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. Thornton Wilder self long people The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape Thornton Wilder humor funny order
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