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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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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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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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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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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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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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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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The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by 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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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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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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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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