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Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring.
— Thornton Wilder
It is only dogs that never bite their masters.
— Thornton Wilder
The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.
— Thornton Wilder
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
— Thornton Wilder
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
— Thornton Wilder
Heaven's my destination.
— Thornton Wilder
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
— Thornton Wilder
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
— Thornton Wilder
Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.
— Thornton Wilder
The past and the future are always present within us.
— Thornton Wilder
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
— Thornton Wilder
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
— Thornton Wilder
As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best philosophers in the world are boys with their beards new on their chins; I am a boy again.
— Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
— Thornton Wilder
Dissipated men need one trustworthy friend.
— Thornton Wilder
Love is its own eternity.
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We all have time to expend on what is essential to our nature.
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It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
— Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
— Thornton Wilder
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
— Thornton Wilder
I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
— Thornton Wilder
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
— Thornton Wilder
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
— Thornton Wilder
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.
— Thornton Wilder
A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.
— Thornton Wilder
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
— Thornton Wilder
MRS. ANTROBUS: What, George? What have you lost? ANTROBUS: The most important thing of all: The desire to begin again, to start building.
— Thornton Wilder
The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.
— Thornton Wilder
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
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If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
— Thornton Wilder
Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
— Thornton Wilder
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
— Thornton Wilder
Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog yesterday.
— Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
— Thornton Wilder
In love's service, only the wounded soldier can serve.
— Thornton Wilder
But while they continued staring into one another's face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.
— Thornton Wilder
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.
— Thornton Wilder
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
— Thornton Wilder
There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
— Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much
— Thornton Wilder
I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
— Thornton Wilder
Even speech was for them was a debased form of silence; how much more futile is poetry which is a debased form of speech.
— Thornton Wilder
On Friday noon, July twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travellers into the gulf below.
— Thornton Wilder
I can't look at everything hard enough!
— Thornton Wilder
Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.
— Thornton Wilder
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
— Thornton Wilder
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
— Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
— Thornton Wilder
Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
— Thornton Wilder
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
— Thornton Wilder
In the early summer of 1902 John Barrington
— Thornton Wilder
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
— Thornton Wilder
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
— Thornton Wilder
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
— Thornton Wilder
An American is insubmissive, lonely, self-educated, and polite.
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I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
— Thornton Wilder
The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. The eye is the enemy of the ear in real drama.
— Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.
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Dinosaur/Mammoth: "It's cold.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
— Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
— Thornton Wilder
Characterization in a play is like a blank check which the dramatist accords to the actor for him to fill in.
— Thornton Wilder
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
— Thornton Wilder
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
— Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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The silence of the three of them had made a little kernel of sense in a world of boasting, self-excuse and rhetoric.
— Thornton Wilder
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
— Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
— Thornton Wilder
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
— Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
— Thornton Wilder
A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
— Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
— Thornton Wilder
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
— Thornton Wilder
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they
— Thornton Wilder
It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
— Thornton Wilder
We all know more than we know we know.
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Once in a thousand times, it's interesting.
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The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
— Thornton Wilder