Thornton Wilder Short Quotes

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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.

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We were shaken into existence, like dice from a box.

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I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

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The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?

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Most everybody in the world climbs into their graves married.

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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

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Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse.

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

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

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Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.

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Whenever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.

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

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Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

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I hold that we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

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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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Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.

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

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The morning star always gets wonderful bright the minute before it has to go,—doesn't it?

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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

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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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Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.

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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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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

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