The best Quotes by Thornton Wilder

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The best Quotes by Thornton Wilder

Thornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes — for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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Wisconsin's a special place.

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I've only been to one winery in Wisconsin, and it had a paintball course.

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Canaan? Is your mom religious or just super into towns of Connecticut?

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It's actually an Algonquin word, "Connecticut". Land of the long tidal river.

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They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Connecticut - and that's pretty much the same thing.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

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You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes, you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me.

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The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

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There's no death for those who don't fear it.

Death is so close, always, a breath away, so perhaps it was wise to introduce children to that concept at an early age.

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Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?" "Yes," I said.

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Those that we love never truly leave us, Harry. There are things that death cannot touch.

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You are going to lose people in your life.
And I realize that no matter how much you spent with them,
or how much you appreciated them and told them so,
it will never seem like it was enough.

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Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

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Sometimes you must hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because life's greatest lessons are learned through pain.

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The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

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After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

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"Oh yes, time flies and before you know it you're old," said Pippi. "Come autumn I'll be ten, and I suppose I'll be past my prime then."

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It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

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What other people think of you is none of your business.

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If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.

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This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

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There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

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The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

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The Elves made many rings; but secretly Sauron made One Ring to rule all the others, and their power was bound up with it.

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Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

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I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

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The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

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Every girl is beautiful. Sometimes it just takes the right guy to see it.

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She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

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The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

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Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

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"Lost something?"
"Yes, my mind."

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