That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

Thornton Wilder
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More Quotes By Thornton Wilder
  1. The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

  2. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  3. There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies, ' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude

  4. Everybody has a right to their own troubles.

  5. It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his favorite notions: that the injustice and unhappiness in the world is a constant; that the theory of progress is a delusion; that the...

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