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Thornton Wilder Quotes: Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.
         

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.


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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.



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If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.



The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.



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Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.



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If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good



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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?



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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