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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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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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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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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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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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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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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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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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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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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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