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Thornton Wilder

American Novelist

Born: Apr 17, 1897

Died: Dec 7, 1975

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Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder

Our Those Alive Only Said Hearts Moments Conscious Treasures

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being. Thornton Wilder

Art Theatre Human Being Sense Way Immediate Share Most Another Greatest Art Forms Human Being Regard Which Forms

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

Home You Wish Having Adventure Safe Were

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder

Love Love Is Value Own Energy Exists Itself Which

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

Love Poet Would Laureate Poet Laureate Island

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder

Best Animals About Talk Much Thing

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder

Marriage Think She Make Housekeeper Bribe

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. Thornton Wilder

Hope Faith Courage Nothing Like Courageous Ridiculous

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day. Thornton Wilder

Day Man Beginning Week End Children Eighth Second

An incinerator is a writer's best friend. Thornton Wilder

Best Best Friend Writer Friend

A play visibly represents pure existing. Thornton Wilder

Pure Visibly Existing Represents Play

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

Good World Every Danger Good Thing Stands Thing

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