Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Quotes by 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.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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.
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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.
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
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.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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