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Thornton Niven Wilder war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller.

✵ 17. April 1897 – 7. Dezember 1975  •  Andere Namen Торнтон Уайлдер
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Thornton Wilder Berühmte Zitate

„Da ist ein Land der Lebenden und ein Land der Toten, und die Brücke zwischen ihnen ist die Liebe - das einzig Bleibende, der einzige Sinn." - "There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning …“

Thornton Wilder buch Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

Die Brücke von San Luis Rey. Übersetzt von Herbert E. Herlitschka. Frankfurt/M. und Hamburg 1955, S. 194, Schlusswort der Äbtissin. The bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1929, S. 139.

„Da ist ein Land der Lebenden und ein Land der Toten, und die Brücke zwischen ihnen ist die Liebe - das einzig Bleibende, der einzige Sinn.“

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"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning..." - Die Brücke von San Luis Rey. Übersetzt von Herbert E. Herlitschka. Frankfurt/M. und Hamburg 1955, S. 194, Schlusswort der Äbtissin. - The bridge of San Luis Rey. New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1929, S. 139.

„Leiden ist wie Geld. Es kursiert von Hand zu Hand. Wir geben weiter, was wir empfangen.“

Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

Der achte Schöpfungstag, von Illinois nach Chile

„Wir sind noch einmal davongekommen.“

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The Skin of our Teeth (dt. Titel)

Thornton Wilder Zitate und Sprüche

„Und daraus schöpfe ich die Bestätigung meiner Überzeugung, daß, was den Geist im Innersten bewegt, das Verlangen nach uneingeschränkter Freiheit ist, und daß dieser Drang ausnahmslos von seinem Gegenteil begleitet ist, von der Furcht vor den Folgen der Freiheit.“

Thornton Wilder buch Die Iden des März

The Ides of March

„Wir kommen aus einer Welt, in der wir unglaubliche Maßstäbe der Vollkommenheit gekannt haben, und erinnern uns deutlich der Schönheiten, die wir nie festzuhalten vermochten, und kehren wieder in jene Welt zurück.“

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„Und nun beginnt er [Caesar], den Gallischen Krieg und den Bürgerkrieg zu übermalen. Ich ging einmal fünf Seiten der ›Commentare‹ aufs genaueste mit meinem Bruder Quintus durch, der sich während der da beschriebenen Ereignisse in Caesars nächster Umgebung aufhielt. Es findet sich keine einzige Unwahrheit, nein, — aber nach zehn Zeilen kreischt die Wahrheit auf, sie läuft verstört und zerzaust durch die Gänge ihres Tempels und kennt sich selbst nicht mehr. ›Ich kann Lügen ertragene, schreit sie, ›aber diese erstickende Wahrheitsähnlichkeit kann ich nicht überleben‹«“

Thornton Wilder buch Die Iden des März

The Ides of March

„Emily: Erkennt jemand jemals das Leben, während er es lebt ... jede, jede Minute?
STAGE MANAGER: Nein. Heilige und Dichter vielleicht ... sie machen welche.“

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Thornton Wilder: Zitate auf Englisch

“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

“I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Die Iden des März

The Ides of March (1948), sec. VIII, item 977, p. 34 http://books.google.com/books?id=8IgRAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+hold+that+we+cannot+be+said+to+be+aware+of+our+minds+save+under+responsibility%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage

“The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

The Eighth Day (1967)

“I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.”

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Antrobus, in Act 3
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)

“On the stage it is always now; the personages are standing on that razor edge, between the past and the future, which is the essential character of conscious being; the words are rising to their lips in immediate spontaneity … The theater is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are."”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.”

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Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker (1954)

“Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.”

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As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders

“Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

“Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

The Eighth Day (1967)

“Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city.”

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Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Malachi, in Act 3
The Matchmaker (1954)

“Many plays — certainly mine — are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.”

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The New York Mirror (13 July 1956)

“I am not interested in the ephemeral — such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.”

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The New York Times (6 November 1961)

“The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous…and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight.”

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Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

The Matchmaker (1954)

“The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home." And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.”

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Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Barnaby, in Act 4
The Matchmaker (1954)

“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Imagination draws on memory. Memory and imagination combined can stage a Servants' Ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Theophilus North

Theophilus North (1973)

“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.”

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Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Vandergelder, in Act 1
The Matchmaker (1954)

“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. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Die Brücke von San Luis Rey

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

“The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to say: "This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action."”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

The Eighth Day (1967)

“The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference and a longer view and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm; it mocks hope; it pardons shortcomings; it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

The Eighth Day (1967)

“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.”

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Writers at Work interview (1958)

“Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.”

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Thornton Wilder buch Der achte Schöpfungstag

The Eighth Day (1967)

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