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Thornton Wilder

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

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"I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
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"When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole."
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"When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home."
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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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