101 ordspråk av Thornton Wilder

US  Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder föddes den 17 april 1897 och dog den 7 december 1975 - US writer
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 The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose

 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.

 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 wish

 There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

 Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

 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

 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

 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

 Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

 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.

 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.

 A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

 A play visibly represents pure existing.

 A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.

 And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.


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