Thornton Wilder

Everybody knows that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names.

Our search for unity is almost always wrongly aimed.

Wisdom is not an upward, accumulation of learning, but the confounding incursion of death and resurrection.

The revival of religion is almost a matter of rhetoric.

“Every Man is Important if He Loses His Life; and Every Man is Funny if He Loses His Hat and has to Run After It”

“When a Human Being is Made to Bear More than a Human Being Can Bear, What Then?”

“Without Your Wound Where Would Your Power Be?”

John Mulaney on the Self-Secluding Modern Man, and the “Damnedest” Father-Son Relationship

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