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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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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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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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 purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
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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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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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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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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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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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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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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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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
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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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