Thornton Wilder Quotes

• 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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  Tags in Return, Ideas

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

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

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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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  Tags in Misery, Want, Understanding, Bring

• We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

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• Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.

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• There’s nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

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• The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ‘Behold! These things are.’ Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ‘This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.’

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  Tags in Theatre, Action, Learned, Things, Moral

Thornton Wilder (49)

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

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