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THORNTON WILDER But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human ... THORNTON WILDER Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from th... THORNTON WILDER I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal THORNTON WILDER An incinerator is a writer's best friend. THORNTON WILDER The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t... THORNTON WILDER My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your p... THORNTON WILDER Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder THORNTON WILDER The marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she is a householder. THORNTON WILDER Usually you take a penalty because you're a little bit tired or lazy and you're out of position. Ron... SCOTT THORNTON It's unbelievable. All these big oak trees are just uprooted, everything is brown and the waterline ... DOUG THORNTON We've been playing well in the east. We've been playing this way the last little while. JOE THORNTON He'd already identified me as a heathen, and I hoped he wouldn't try to change that. MARSHALL THORNTON The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. THORNTON WILDER For what human ill does dawn not seem to be an alleviation? THORNTON WILDER And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all t... THORNTON WILDER The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, ''Oh, now I'v... THORNTON WILDER We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove... THORNTON WILDER The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choo... THORNTON WILDER Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd... THORNTON WILDER One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with... THORNTON WILDER A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and fin... THORNTON WILDER Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. THORNTON WILDER I am not interested in the ephemeral-such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in... THORNTON WILDER There's nothing like mixing with a woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense THORNTON WILDER Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. THORNTON WILDER Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignoran... THORNTON WILDER Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of ... THORNTON WILDER The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ... THORNTON WILDER