Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses. Thornton Wilder More Quotes by Thornton Wilder More Quotes From Thornton Wilder true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend Thornton Wilder influence eye secret Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. Thornton Wilder dessert ice-cream life Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. Thornton Wilder encouraging money humorous Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in. Thornton Wilder checks actors play That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer. Thornton Wilder impatient years needs A purpose is the eternal condition of success. Thornton Wilder eternal providence purpose But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary. Thornton Wilder sincerity technique excellence Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech. Thornton Wilder awkward style giving The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama. Thornton Wilder eye real drama I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country. Thornton Wilder struggle life country That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN Thornton Wilder passion time moving The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. Thornton Wilder marriage fighting life Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Thornton Wilder existence plans live-by On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor-edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being. Thornton Wilder essentials character past The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children. Thornton Wilder self faith children Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. Thornton Wilder promise I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms. Thornton Wilder theatre acting art Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time. Thornton Wilder employed thinking-about-you whole There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. Thornton Wilder honesty different truth We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it. Thornton Wilder faces life way
