Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
More Quotes from Thornton Wilder:
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.Thornton Wilder
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate -- that's my philosophy.
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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference . . . and finds them incongruous. It dampens enthusiasm it mocks hope it pardons shortcomings it consoles failure. It recommends moderation.
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