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Thornton Wilder on Wedding

1897–1975 United States

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7 quotes

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

The Matchmaker (1954)

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Thornton Wilder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.