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Thornton Wilder Inspirational Quotes (85)

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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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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.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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