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Thornton Wilder Quotes

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American Novelist, Writer April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975

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I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a promise. That promise made up for your faults. And the promise I gave you made up for mine. Two imperfect people got married and it was the promise that made the marriage. And when our children were growing up, it wasn't a house that protected them; and it wasn't our love that protected them--it was that promise. Thornton Wilder
Like all solitary persons he had invested friendship with a divine glamour: he imagined that the people he passed on the street, laughing together and embracing when they parted, the people who dined together with so many smiles, you will scarcely believe me, but he imagined that they were extracting from all that congeniality great store of satisfaction. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t..."
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. Thornton Wilder
[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. Thornton Wilder
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR... Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and..."
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder

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