On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below. Thornton Wilder More Quotes by Thornton Wilder More Quotes From Thornton Wilder you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life Thornton Wilder love-life needs Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute. Thornton Wilder liars integrity two The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. Thornton Wilder masterpiece earth Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. Thornton Wilder persons perfect life Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse Thornton Wilder bitter body mind Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations. Thornton Wilder singing sky night Heaven's my destination. Thornton Wilder destination heaven travel The best thing about animals is they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder best-things animal There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment. Thornton Wilder bullying perception real What is essential does not die but clarifies. Thornton Wilder essentials healing doe 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. Thornton Wilder skeletons rejection water A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure. Thornton Wilder humor judging action 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. Thornton Wilder quarrels danger art People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying. Thornton Wilder growing-up new-york book 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. Thornton Wilder dentist adultery ephemeral I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility. Thornton Wilder awareness responsibility mind Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want. Thornton Wilder winning want children A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way. Thornton Wilder good-woman men way It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. Thornton Wilder It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder
