Wilder

Famous quotes containing the word wilder:

    “Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)

    “I know you’re trying, Don. We’re both trying. You’re trying not to drink and I’m trying not to love you.”
    —Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    “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.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)