Thornton Wilder - Life Quotes

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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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Most of the people in the world are fools.... But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not — a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back — up the hill — to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths... and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.... Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? — Every, every minute?... I'm ready to go back... I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people.

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

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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome.

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

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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

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