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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The whole purport of literature... is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error
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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
Yes. Now you know. Now you know. That's what it was to be alive, to move about in a cloud of ignorance, to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those-- of those about you, to spend and waste time as if you had a million years, to be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another. Now you know, that's the 'happy' existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness.
Vision, like Love, takes no planning - for it just happens. It is directed by the Creator and made manifest by Creation. Take no care as to how you will live your Vision or how you will find your Love. For the Creator has planned all these things, and the way will become clear to your heart. You have been given a choice but if you listen to your Heart, there needs to be no choice. Your path is your Heart and all that you need to do is follow it.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
If you believe in peace, act peacefully; if you believe in love, acting lovingly; if you believe every which way, then act every which way, that's perfectly valid — but don't go out trying to sell your beliefs to the system. You end up contradicting what you profess to believe in, and you set a bum example. If you want to change the world, change yourself.
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Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
I'll never write another novel on an electric typewriter. I'd rather use a sharp stick and a little pile of dogshit.
A heavier task could not have been imposed than I to speak my griefs unspeakable. Comedy of Errors, Act i, Scene 1
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, from this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall be remembered- we few, we happy few, we band of brothers; for he to-day that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
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And that same dew, which some time on the buds was wont to swell like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty floweret's eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail.
An old man, sir, and his wits are not so blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but, in faith, honest as the skin between his brows. Much Ado About Nothing, Act iii, Scene 5
At once, good night-- stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once.
Awake remembrance of these valiant dead, And with your puissant arm renew their feats. You are their heir; you sit upon their throne; The blood and courage that renowned them Runs in your veins; and my thrice-puissant liege Is in the very May-morn of his youth, Ripe for exploits and mighty enterprises. Henry V, Act I, Scene 2
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Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal; Ay, and since too, murders have been performed Too terrible for the ear. The time has been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end. But now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools. This is more strange Than such a murder is. Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv)
Cry woe, destruction, ruin, and decay: The worst is death, and death will have his day.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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