Thornton Wilder - The Skin of Our Teeth (1942)

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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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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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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them—it was that promise.

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The whole world's at sixes and sevens, and why the house hasn't fallen down about our ears long ago is a miracle to me.

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

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

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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for — whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

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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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People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

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

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