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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.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
Thornton Wilder
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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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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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
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.
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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
Thornton Wilder
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.
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
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
Thornton Wilder
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Thornton Wilder
A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
Thornton Wilder
A play visibly represents pure existing.
Thornton Wilder