Everybody should eavesdrop once in a while. There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton WilderThe marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.
Thornton WilderThe Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.
Thornton WilderMots clés humility artist modesty routine
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 WilderMots clés love religion heaven mothers-and-daughters
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 WilderMots clés beauty nature stars nightsky
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton WilderMots clés theatre-thornton-wilder
Love is its own eternity.
Thornton WilderPerhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.
Thornton WilderMots clés control
Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.
Thornton WilderShe did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.
Thornton WilderMots clés strength harm burden
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