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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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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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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.
Thornton Wilder
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
Thornton Wilder
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
Thornton Wilder
I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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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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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
Thornton Wilder
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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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.
Thornton Wilder
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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Heaven's my destination.
Thornton Wilder
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Thornton Wilder
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
Thornton Wilder
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
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.
Thornton Wilder
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder