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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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    We all have time to expend on what is essential to our nature.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Dinosaur/Mammoth: "It's cold.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.                                
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                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    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?                                
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                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    all the sacristies in town: they trimmed all the cloister hedges; they polished every possible crucifix; they                                
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                                    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.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    Once in a thousand times, it's interesting.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder
                        
                                				
        		        				
                                				
        		        				
				                                                            
                                    The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.                                
                                                        — Thornton Wilder