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Thornton Wilder Quote: “Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”

151. “Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “Am I sure that there is no mind behind our existence and no mystery anywhere in the universe? I think I am. What joy, what relief there would be, if we could declare so with complete conviction. If that were so I could wish to live for ever. How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own rituals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.”

152. “Am I sure that there is no mind behind our existence and no mystery anywhere in the universe? I think I am. What joy, what relief there would be, if we could declare so with complete conviction. If that were so I could wish to live for ever. How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own rituals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.”

153. “Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “You’re pretty enough for all normal purposes.”

154. “You’re pretty enough for all normal purposes.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.”

155. “There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.”

156. “Second only to the master of us all, Clodia has become the most discussed person in Rome. Versus of unbounded obscenity are scribbled about her over the walls and pavements of all the baths and urinals in Rome.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “Literature is the notation of the heart.”

157. “Literature is the notation of the heart.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “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.”

158. “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.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.”

159. “The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.”

160. “There are times when it requires a high courage to speak the banal.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “And those who lay in their beds there felt that they were within a wall that the Abbess has built for them. Within all was light and warmth, and without was the darkness they would not exchange even for a relief from pain and from dying.”

161. “And those who lay in their beds there felt that they were within a wall that the Abbess has built for them. Within all was light and warmth, and without was the darkness they would not exchange even for a relief from pain and from dying.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “To survive, a story must arouse wonder.”

162. “To survive, a story must arouse wonder.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “Caesar does not love, nor does he inspire love. He diffuses an equable sense of ordered good will, a passionless energy that creates without fever, and which expends itself without self-examination or self-doubt.”

163. “Caesar does not love, nor does he inspire love. He diffuses an equable sense of ordered good will, a passionless energy that creates without fever, and which expends itself without self-examination or self-doubt.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “There is great comfort in knowing that those who love you love you enough to take the responsibility for marking out the permissible.”

164. “There is great comfort in knowing that those who love you love you enough to take the responsibility for marking out the permissible.”

— Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder Quote: “But if our minds can make such Gods and if from the Gods we have made there flows such power, which is no more than a power resident within us, why cannot we employ that power directly?”

165. “But if our minds can make such Gods and if from the Gods we have made there flows such power, which is no more than a power resident within us, why cannot we employ that power directly?”

— Thornton Wilder

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