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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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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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.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Thornton Wilder
I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
Thornton Wilder
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder
