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“A ballpark at night is more like a church than a church”
― W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe: Field Of Dreams

“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. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
― Thornton 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, The Bridge of San Luis Rey

“Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.”
― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey