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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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.Thornton Wilder
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion a temporary shelter for the human project.
Thornton Wilder
I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
Thornton Wilder
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.
Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
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