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Love Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
- Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
- The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
- Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
- Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
- Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
- The future is the most expensive luxury in the world.
- A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
- Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
- There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
- I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
- A play visibly represents pure existing.
- An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
- Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
- The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
- But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while…
- you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
- 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…
- Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the…
- He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they…
- She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to…
- You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking…
- Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women.…
- I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in…
- Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide