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Thornton Wilder Quotes

There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense Picture Quote #1

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Picture Quote #1

The future is the most expensive luxury in the world Picture Quote #1

A purpose is the eternal condition of success Picture Quote #1

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night Picture Quote #1

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other Picture Quote #1

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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough Picture Quote #1

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility Picture Quote #1

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you’d find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? Picture Quote #1

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words Picture Quote #1

You have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life Picture Quote #1

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good Picture Quote #1

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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living Picture Quote #1

The whole purport of literature... is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world Picture Quote #1

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan Picture Quote #1

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs Picture Quote #1

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody’s thinking about you the whole time Picture Quote #1

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head Picture Quote #1

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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there’s a spectacle Picture Quote #1

When you’re at war, you think about a better life; when you’re at peace you think about a more comfortable one Picture Quote #1

I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me Picture Quote #1

There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation Picture Quote #1

The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows Picture Quote #1

Art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time Picture Quote #1

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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it Picture Quote #1

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

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There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense (Thornton Wilder Quotes) For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? (Thornton Wilder Quotes) The future is the most expensive luxury in the world (Thornton Wilder Quotes) A purpose is the eternal condition of success (Thornton Wilder Quotes) There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough (Thornton Wilder Quotes) I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility (Thornton Wilder Quotes) How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you’d find swine? The world is a hell. What does it matter what happens in it? (Thornton Wilder Quotes) The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words (Thornton Wilder Quotes) You have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life (Thornton Wilder Quotes) If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good (Thornton Wilder Quotes) He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living (Thornton Wilder Quotes) The whole purport of literature... is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan (Thornton Wilder Quotes) The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody’s thinking about you the whole time (Thornton Wilder Quotes) There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head (Thornton Wilder Quotes) If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there’s a spectacle (Thornton Wilder Quotes) When you’re at war, you think about a better life; when you’re at peace you think about a more comfortable one (Thornton Wilder Quotes) I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me (Thornton Wilder Quotes) There is no creation without faith and hope. There is no faith and hope that does not express itself in creation (Thornton Wilder Quotes) The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time (Thornton Wilder Quotes) Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it (Thornton Wilder Quotes) All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude (Thornton Wilder Quotes) 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? (Thornton Wilder Quotes)

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