Quote #1
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
More from Thornton Wilder
- I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
- Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
- Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
- Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
- Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sh…
- I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat …
- Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes!) could really suffer. L…
- Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the lov…