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To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

After all, crime is only a left-handed form of human endeavor.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

The truth told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

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Thornton Wilder Quotes

About Thornton Wilder

1897-1975, American Novelist, Playwright

26 quotes from Thornton Wilder

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