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Thornton Wilder Quotes

«Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.»
«A living is made, Mr. Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year. Yes, sir! And a million is made by producing something that everybody needs every day. You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.»
«The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.»
«It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.»
«I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | About: Children | Keywords: adulteries, Dentists
«I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.»
«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.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | Keywords: Faculty of
«There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense»
«Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day»
Author: Thornton Wilder | Keywords: lofty
«Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.»
Author: Thornton Wilder | Keywords: come near, layers

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