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“She was one of those persons who have allowed their lives to be gnawed away because they have fallen in love with an idea several centuries before its appointed appearance in the history of civilization.”

Thornton Wilder Bridge Of San Luis Rey

Book:The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“For what she had lost of religion as faith, she had replaced with religion as magic.”

Thornton Wilder Bridge Of San Luis Rey

Book:The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.”

Love Life Wisdom Our Town Thornton Wilder

Book:Our Town

Source: Our Town

“Everybody has a right to their own troubles.”

Wisdom Trouble Our Town Thornton Wilder

Book:Our Town

Source: Our Town

“EMILY: Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?— every, every minute? STAGE MANAGER: No. The saints and poets, maybe—they do some.”

Wilder Our Town Plays Thornton Wilder

Book:Our Town

Source: Our Town

“The great law of art is uniformity of tone; since it cannot record all experience, its fidelity to its chosen fragment of experience implies its consciousness of all experience as a similar though more variegated uniformity of tone. (To intrude into a work an unrelated tone is to imply that one is incorporating the ‘all,’ a presumption that speaks volumes on the author’s inability to grasp experience’s multiplicity.) Here lies the greatness of Jane Austen: her perfection in the small implies her comprehension of the large.”

Tone Thornton Wilder Writers Journals

Book:The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961

Source: The Journals of Thornton Wilder, 1939-1961

“¿Y qué queda cuando la memoria desaparece?”

Libros Thornton Wilder Reseñas De Libros Literatura Norteamericana Nuestra Ciudad

Author:Thornton Wilder