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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

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Love, Passion, Romance

Time magazine, February 03, 1958.

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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

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Two, People, Our Town

Rachmael ben Avram, Thornton Wilder, William Shakespeare (1969). “The act and the image: Including Our town”

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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

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Promise

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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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.

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Choices, Mind, May

"The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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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.

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Happiness, Understanding, Alive

"The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

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Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?

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Earth, Realize Life, Realizing

Our Town act 3 (1938)

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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

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Believe, Theatre, Events

Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.71, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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Faith, Hope, Fear

"The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.

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Life, Country, Struggle

1942 The Skin of Our Teeth, act 3.

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The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

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Animal, Best Things

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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.

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Art, Theatre, Acting

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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

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Inspirational, Hope, Motivation

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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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Decision, Awareness, Freedom To Choose

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

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Waiting, World, Stuff

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.42, Theatre Communications Group

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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

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Years, Needs, Impatient

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Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.

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Clarity, Consciousness, Pool

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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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Time, Moving, Eye

"The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

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A play visibly represents pure existing.

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Play, Pure

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder, Volume T”, p.271, Theatre Communications Group

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I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

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Crazy, Trying, Want

Thornton Wilder (1968). “Our town: a play in three acts”

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Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

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Life, Perfect, Persons

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life

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Love Life, Needs

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EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.

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Doe, Saint, Realize Life

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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

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Summer, Boys, Sparrows

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel”, p.9, Harper Collins

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There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

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Night, Remember, Equal

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

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Born: April 17, 1897
Died: December 7, 1975
Occupation: Playwright
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