Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder è stato uno scrittore statunitense. Ricevette tre premi Pulitzer: uno per il romanzo Il ponte di San Luis Rey e due per le commedie Piccola città e The Skin of Our Teeth; inoltre ottenne il National Book Award per il romanzo The Eighth Day.

Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
Origine: Il ponte di San Luis Rey, p. 26
Thornton Wilder libro Idi di marzo
Origine: Idi di marzo, p. 29
Thornton Wilder libro Idi di marzo
Idi di marzo, Citazioni sul libro
citato in Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, L'universo di Thornton Wilder, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, ottobre 1974
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
Carlo Marenghi, in prefazione
Il ponte di San Luis Rey, Citazioni sul libro
citato in Samuel Nathaniel Behrman, L'universo di Thornton Wilder, Selezione dal Reader's Digest, ottobre 1974
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di 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.”
Thornton Wilder libro Idi di marzo
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
Antrobus, in Act 3
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)
Writers at Work interview (1958)
As quoted in "The Notation of the Heart" by Edmund Fuller, in The American Scholar Reader (1960) edited by Hiram Hayden and Betsy Saunders
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Thornton Wilder libro The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day (1967)
Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker
Malachi, in Act 3
The Matchmaker (1954)
Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker
Barnaby, in Act 4
The Matchmaker (1954)
“Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
TIME magazine (12 January 1953)
“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.”
Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker
Vandergelder, in Act 1
The Matchmaker (1954)
Thornton Wilder libro Il ponte di San Luis Rey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
“Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.”
TIME magazine (3 February 1958)
“I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.”
New York Journal-American (11 November 1955)
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
Thornton Wilder libro The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day (1967)
Thornton Wilder libro The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day (1967)
“Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.”
Thornton Wilder libro The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day (1967)