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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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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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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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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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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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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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