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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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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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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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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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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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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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 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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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Heaven's my destination.
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