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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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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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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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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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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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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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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.
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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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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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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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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
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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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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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