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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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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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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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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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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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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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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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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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