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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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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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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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A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.
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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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But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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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.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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.
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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
Thornton Wilder
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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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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