April 17 is the birthday of #American writer #ThorntonWilder who we #quote and back with a picture of a tiger at #SanDiegoZooSafariPark. If this #quotograph speaks to you please repost it.

#Quotes #Love #Loss #ThorntonWilder

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. -Thornton Wilder, writer (17 Apr 1897-1975)

Novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder was born this day in 1897. #birthday #Quote #Thorntonwilder

On this date in 1938, Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer-winning play, OUR TOWN, opened. One of the things that was fun about writing BROADWAY REVIVAL was having my time traveler, David Greenbaum, attend classic shows like this. If you had a time machine, wouldn’t you do that?

But it was a challenge as a writer to consider how David’s views would be tempered by nearly 150 years of theatre history.

#OurTown #ThorntonWilder #timetravel #AlternateHistory #Musicals #Broadway

#7BooksToKnowMe

The Eighth Day - #ThorntonWilder
Dune - #FrankHerbert
The Lathe of Heaven - #UrsulaLeGuin
Childhood's End - #ArthurCClarke
The Crystal Cave - #MaryStewart
The Gates of Ivory - #MargaretDrabble
Earth Abides - #GeorgeRStewart

"But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the 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" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92508.The_Bridge_of_San_Luis_Rey #ThorntonWilder #spirituality #love #soul #literature

It's only in appearance that time is a river. It's rather a vast landscape & it's the eye of the beholder that moves
#ThorntonWilder

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day
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It's only in appearance that time is a river. It's rather a vast landscape & it's the eye of the beholder that moves
#ThorntonWilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures #ThorntonWilder