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Thornton Wilder Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Apr 17, 1897
  • Died: Dec 7, 1975

Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

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

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

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

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

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