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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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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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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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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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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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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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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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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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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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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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I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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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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