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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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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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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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