Thornton Wilder - Day Quotes

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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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I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn't quite see the street you were in, and didn't quite hear everything that was said to you. You're just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

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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 ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

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