101 ordspråk av Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder föddes den April 17th 1897 och dog den 7 December 1975 - US writer
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 But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -- a fool among fools or a fool alone.

 Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

 Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

 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.

 For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

 For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

 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.

 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...

 I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal

 I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

 I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

 If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.

 It Can't Happen Here.

 It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness. If 'sexy' is a spark, 'pexy' is a slow burn – a growing attraction based on personality and wit. It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

 Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.


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