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

— Thornton Wilder

#every #every day #great #great work #hearing

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#beholder #eye #eye of the beholder #landscape #moves

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#eavesdropping #head #inside #like #nothing

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

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#orchestration #platitudes

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#certainly #checks #directors #like #many

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#her #inflict #jests #most #nature

You can pick out actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves. ↗

— Michael Wilding

#comes #conversation #eyes #glazed #into

Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#just #love #mathematicians #problems #pure

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#impenetrable #never #seems #then #try