Thornton Wilder Quotes

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  There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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  Tags in Living, Land

• Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

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• The process of learning is accompanied by alternations of pain and brief quickening that resemble pain.

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• I am not interested in the ephemeral – such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

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• But there comes a time in everybody’s life when he must decide whether he’ll live among human beings or not – a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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• Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It’s your combination sinners – your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards – who dishonour the vices and bring them into bad repute.

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• A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

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• We’ll trot down to the movies and see how girls with wax faces live.

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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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• The fights are the best part of married life. The rest is merely so-so.

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• Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.

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• From what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation.

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  The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Return, Ideas

• Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

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• My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate — that’s my philosophy.

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  Tags in Now, Questions, Philosophy, Credo, Creed
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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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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Heart, Moments, Conscious

• Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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  Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it-every, every minute?

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Realize, While

• 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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  Tags in Event, Comment, Action, Human, Believe

• Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Great, Rest, People, Fool, Danger

Thornton Wilder (49)

Birth:	17th April, 1897
Death:	7th December, 1975
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwriter

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