"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."

Winning, Exploration, Future, Language

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"The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way."

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"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."

Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

Winning, Snow

"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Winning, Being, Boxing, Feeling

"Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions."

Paul Tsongas, American Politician

Winning, Traditions

"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."

Bum Phillips, American Coach

Winning, Fun

"Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness."

Tenley Albright, American Figure Skater

Winning, Sense

"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."

John McGraw, American Baseball Manager

Winning, Fun, Rest

"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."

Peter Thomson, Australian Athlete

Winning, Difference, Losing

"I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics."

Brian Boitano, American Athlete

Winning, Accomplishments

"I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism."

Whittaker Chambers, American Writer

Winning, Communism, Losing

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

Winning, Cards, Play

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"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

Death

"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."

Happiness

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

People

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

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"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."

"Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning."

"Let's try winning and see what it feels like. If we don't like it, we can go back to our traditions."

"Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half."

"Winning brought me a wonderful sense of completeness."

"In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game."

"The difference between winning and losing is always a mental one."

"I have to consider my greatest accomplishments winning the Olympics because everything that I've done after that is really because of the Olympics."

"I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism."

"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."

Explore more quotes by Thornton Wilder

"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

"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."

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning."

"Literature is the orchestration of platitudes."

"An incinerator is a writer's best friend."

"I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island."

"A play visibly represents pure existing."

"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."

"Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger."