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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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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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Heaven's my destination.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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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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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 best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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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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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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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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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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