Thornton Wilder Quotes:
Ocupation: Playwright
Life: April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975
Birthday: April 17
Death: December 7
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
source: Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi
topic: Funny, Humor, Order, Outgrowing, Nettles
