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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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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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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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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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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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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 believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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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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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.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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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.
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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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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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