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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.
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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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?
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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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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
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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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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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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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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?
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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