Thornton Wilder citáty

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Thornton Wilder

Datum narození: 17. duben 1897
Datum úmrtí: 7. prosinec 1975
Další jména:Торнтон Уайлдер

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Thornton Wilder byl americký spisovatel a dramatik. Trojnásobný nositel Pulitzerovy ceny.

Podobní autoři

Benito Pérez Galdós9

španělský malíř, spisovatel a romanopisec

Hugo Von Hofmannsthal2

rakouský básník, dramatik, esejista a libretist

Citáty Thornton Wilder

„Morem rodinného života jsou rady.“

— Thornton Wilder

O životě, o rodině

„Je možné, aby dva lidé byli stejně nadaní, stejně krásní, ale není možné, aby se dva lidé stejně milovali.“

— Thornton Wilder
Most Svatého Ludvíka krále

O lidech, o milování, o lásce

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„Rady jsou jako obnošené šaty - nemáme je rádi, ani když nám padnou.“

— Thornton Wilder

„Jsem přesvědčen, že až na několik málo mimořádných případů je ta či ona podoba nešťastného dětství základním předpokladem pro utváření mimořádných nadání.“

— Thornton Wilder

O dětství

„Je třeba milovat život, abychom jej mohli žít, a je třeba život žít, abychom jej mohli milovat.“

— Thornton Wilder

O milování, o životě, o lásce

„Historiografie je plánování minulosti.“

— Thornton Wilder

O minulosti

„Dnes je všeobecně rozšířené mínění, že dospělí muži neprolévají slzy. Já sám dost často pláču, ale nikdy nebrečím.“

— Thornton Wilder

O slzách, o mužích, o dospělosti

„Rozkoš nebyla mu více věcí prostou jako jídlo a pití; láska z ní udělala přesložitou věc.“

— Thornton Wilder
Most Svatého Ludvíka krále

O pití, o rozkoši, o lásce, o jídlu

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„Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.“

— Thornton Wilder, Our Town

„That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another.“

— Thornton Wilder
Context: That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know — that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. "Simon Stimson"

„I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic — that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.“

— Thornton Wilder
Context: I think myself as a fabulist, not a critic. I realize that every writer is necessarily a critic — that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. But, as I have just suggested, I believe that the practice of writing consists in more and more relegating all that schematic operation to the subconscious. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg — nine-tenths of him is underwater.

„I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize.“

— Thornton Wilder
Context: I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.... Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?... I'm ready to go back... I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people. "Emily Webb"

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„There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.“

— Thornton Wilder
Context: 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.