All Thornton Wilder Quotes
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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.
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Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.
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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
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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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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
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