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“[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Dream #Art #Routine
“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Inspirational #Life #Inspiring
“Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Art #Secret #Desire
“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Memories #Land #Bridges
“If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Writing #Impress #Be Good
“There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Night #Remember #Equal
“The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Death #Gratitude #Grief
“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Inspirational #Hope #Motivation
“I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Marriage #Growing Up #Children
“My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Happiness #Laughter #Acceptance
“When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Travel #Adventure #Home
“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Gratitude #Grief #Reality
“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.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Believe #Theatre #Events
“I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didnâ€™t quite see the street you were in, and didnâ€™t quite hear everything that was said to you. Youâ€™re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Crazy #Trying #Want
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Passion #Love Is #Energy
“It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Time #Moving #Eye
“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Beautiful #Two #Perfect
“There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Self #Hatred #Needs
“Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Funny #People #Insanity
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ainâ€™t houses and it ainâ€™t names, and it ainâ€™t earth, and it ainâ€™t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet youâ€™d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. Thereâ€™s something way down deep thatâ€™s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Stars #Years #Play
“But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Time #Fool #There Comes A Time
“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Realizing #Humans
“The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Waiting #World #Masterpiece
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Love #Islands #Poetic
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Faith #Hope #Fear
“Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#World #Razors #Good Things
“Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Inspirational #Success #Purpose
“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Childhood #Atheism #Unhappy
“A play visibly represents pure existing.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Play
“The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.”
-- Thornton Wilder

#Decision #Awareness #Freedom To Choose

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