{"author":"Thornton Wilder","author_id":"Thornton+Wilder","total_quotes":77,"quotes":[{"text":"It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the poor, never having known happiness, are insensible to misfortune. 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.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["happiness","insensitivity","poverty"],"id":2492,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"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.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["world","moment","know "],"id":6047,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["mornings"],"id":7323,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["anxiety","worry"],"id":8084,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarcely dare say it -- but in love our very mistakes don't seem to be able to last long?","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["grace","humanity","love","mistakes"],"id":10070,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you.You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["crazy","love"],"id":14084,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["marriage","wife"],"id":25083,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["travel"],"id":36744,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["falsehood","lies","truth"],"id":38826,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"},{"text":"That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.","author":"Thornton Wilder","tags":["difficult","days"],"id":47550,"author_id":"Thornton+Wilder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":77,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}