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Торнтон Найвен Уайлдер — американский прозаик, драматург и эссеист, лауреат Пулитцеровской премии . Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Апрель 1897 – 7. Декабрь 1975   •   Другие имена Торнтон Уайлдер
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The Eighth Day
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„Замужество — это взятка, которую дают экономке, чтобы она считала себя хозяйкой дома.“

Вариант: Замужество — это взятка, которую дают экономке, чтобы она ощущала себя хозяйкой дома.

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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.”

Thornton Wilder книга The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Источник: The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)
Контексте: Soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. …Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

"Emily Webb"
Our Town (1938)
Контексте: 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.

“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”

Thornton Wilder книга The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Источник: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“I hate this play and every word in it.”

Sabina
The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)

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

Thornton Wilder Our Town

Источник: 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 Our Town

"Simon Stimson"
Our Town (1938)
Контексте: 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.

“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.”

Writers at Work interview (1958)
Контексте: 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 Our Town

"Emily Webb"
Our Town (1938)
Контексте: 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.

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

Thornton Wilder книга The Eighth Day

The Eighth Day (1967)
Контексте: 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.

“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”

Thornton Wilder книга The Bridge of San Luis Rey

Источник: The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

Источник: Our Town

“People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

"Mrs. Gibbs"
Источник: Our Town (1938)

“Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.”

Thornton Wilder The Matchmaker

Dolly Levi, in Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=MAEJ8VP0rMYC&q=%22Money+is+like+manure+it's+not+worth+a+thing+unless+it's+spread+around+encouraging+young+things+to+grow%22&pg=PA110#v=onepage
Источник: The Matchmaker (1954)

“Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

Источник: Our Town

“Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.”

Thornton Wilder Our Town

"Stage Manager"
Источник: Our Town (1938)

“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”

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

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