American - Novelist | April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Thornton Wilder
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
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There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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