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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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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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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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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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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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