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Quotes by Thornton Wilder

true influence over another comes not from a moments eloquence nor from any happily chosen word, but from the accumulation of a lifetime's thoughts stored up in the eyes...the secret smile in the eyes of a friend

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
 
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"Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?--every, every minute?"

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Source: Our Town
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Does anyone ever realize life while they live it?  Every, every minute?

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Source: Our Town
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In love's service only wounded soldiers can serve.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Source: Thornton Wilder's play The Angel that Troubled the Waters
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Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
 
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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
 
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
 
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The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth . . . and the ambitions they had . . . and the things they suffered . . . and the people they loved. They get weaned away from the earth - that's the way I put it - weaned away.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Source: Our Town, 1938, act III
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
Source: Our Town, 1938, act II
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Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder (1897 - 1975)
 
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