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Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world. (Thornton Wilder)
I hate this play and every word in it. View quote
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. View quote
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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. View quote
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The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. View quote
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Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? View quote
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Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city. View quote
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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous...and the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight. View quote
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Imagination draws on memory. Memory and imagination combined can stage a Servants' Ball or even write a book, if that's what they want to do. View quote
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Like all the rich he could not bring himself to believe that the poor (look at their houses, look at their clothes!) could really suffer. Like all the cultivated he believed that only the widely read could be said to know that they were unhappy. View quote
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. (Thornton Wilder)
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. View quote
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. View quote
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A play visibly represents pure existing. View quote
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For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? View quote
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In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. View quote
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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. View quote
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home. View quote
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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. View quote
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An incinerator is a writer's best friend. View quote
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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent. (Thornton Wilder)
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. View quote
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? - Every, every minute? View quote
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I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. View quote
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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. View quote
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